By copying, we leave the /etc/hosts with original ownership/permissions/etc.
Otherwise we create a new /etc/hosts, which is subject to new permissions and such.
Entirely mechanical, produced by `ruff check --fix --select F401,F541,E713`
and reviewed rather than taken on faith: deleting an import is only safe if
nothing imports it for its side effects or re-exports it. None of the 19
removed names is referenced anywhere in its file, none appears in any string
literal, and none of the touched files uses eval, exec, globals() or
__import__, so there is no dynamic lookup that could reach them.
Neither tool detected when the attribute database produces conflicting
name/IP data, silently emitting the conflicts.
confluent2hosts now warns when the same hostname is generated for
multiple different addresses within one address family (dual-stack
IPv4+IPv6 pairs stay silent), which happens naturally in -a mode when a
node has several networks without distinct per-net hostnames.
confluent2dnsmasq now warns when generated reservations share a
hostname across different IPs, reserve the same IP more than once
(dnsmasq refuses to start on a duplicate dhcp-host IP), or reuse a MAC.
Jarrod Johnson
Markus Hilger