From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 20 14:53: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from online.tmx.com.au (online.tmx.com.au [192.150.129.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED0C937B71B for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 14:52:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mtaylor@bytecraft.com.au) Received: from melexc01.bytecraft.com.au ([203.9.250.249]) by online.tmx.com.au (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA06446 for Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:52:55 +1100 (EST) Received: by MELEXC01 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:54:49 +1100 Message-ID: <710709BB8B02D311942E00606744181054429F@MELEXC01> From: Murray Taylor To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: /etc/hosts format Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:54:04 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK I have conflicting information about the format of the /etc/hosts table one reference says that the format should be 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain myname.my.domain 10.0.0.2 myname.my.domain myname 10.0.0.3 myfriend.my.domain myfriend then another says 127.0.0.1 localhost.my.domain localhost 10.0.0.2 myname.my.domain myname 10.0.0.3 myfriend.my.domain myfriend then another says 127.0.0.1 localhost.my.domain localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost 10.0.0.2 myname.my.domain myname 10.0.0.2 myname 10.0.0.3 myfriend.my.domain myfriend 10.0.0.3 myfriend then another says (note trailing dots on secondary lines) 127.0.0.1 localhost.my.domain localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost.my.domain. 10.0.0.2 myname.my.domain myname 10.0.0.2 myname.my.domain. 10.0.0.3 myfriend.my.domain myfriend 10.0.0.3 myfriend.my.domain. Who is right??? Murray Taylor Project Engineer Bytecraft P/L +61 3 9587 2555 +61 3 9587 1614 fax mtaylor@bytecraft.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message