A question about hosts files

[Guus Sliepen]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 12:30:06PM +0100, EleGoS wrote:

> >>I'm super-happy because I've just finished my semi-auto configurator for 
> >>Windows machines ^^
> >
> >Great!
> 
> I'll do a language-indipendent exe if you wish ^^

Sure, there may be people who like to use it as well.

> Another question: If I do a star-like VPN (one server Connects To all 
> the others that want to be inside the net -> A server under a NAT won't 
> grave it's bandwidth on one bridge-machine to send data to a third PC), 
> must the main-server restart the service once the tinc.conf is changed 
> and the hosts/*** created?

If you change tinc.conf, and you run it on Windows, you have to restart
tinc. On other operating systems, you can make tinc reload tinc.conf by
sending it a HUP signal. If you only create new hosts/ files, you don't
need to restart tinc or send signals.

> Or can I just insert a lot of ConnectTo in the tinc.conf and then create 
> a lot of hosts/*** that will be changed by the real files, and connect 
> to them without restarting the service?

That is also a possibility.

> Eventually, if the service must be resetted: what's the WinCMD command 
> to restart a service? Just 'sc restart service'?

I think so.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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