Useless comment, downvote/ignore at will; If this were Slashdot, you would have just made a friend for life in APK.

Thanks for the reference, I had never run into APK as a meme/topic.

As to the HOSTS question, I am currently working through Terpstra's SAMBA-3 By Example, and after spending enough time on small business networks chasing down odd stuff every time a Microsoft Small Business Server goes down (runs its own DNS and DHCP servers for the LANs in question), I am beginning to consider static mapping some of these smaller networks for better resiliency, which seems to be a frequent consideration of that author.

I apologize for the naivete, but I did specifically label my comment as such, and my question was an honest one with a simplistic security model in mind, when it comes to specific outside resources that may be untrustworthy.

edit: And that search for APK derived my answer at pineight.com, so again, thanks.

Just to be clear, I was saying my comment was useless, not yours.

Thank you, I did misunderstand and was a bit disappointed my comment was taken as useless. It concerns me when I misunderstand protocol...