rdist rocks! when you don't screw it up.
At the moment we use it sync our 4 DNS VMs. In the past we also managed a cluster of relayd VMs.
https://openbsd.amsterdam/blog/rdist-1-when-ansible-is-too-much.html
OpenBSD Amsterdam
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2026-02-07 06:39:20 UTC
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