From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 11 18: 5:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53F5137B405 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 18:05:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Dylv-000PF9-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 02:05:23 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (tanya.raggedclown.net, from userid 500) id 9933C1131; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 03:05:21 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 03:05:21 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FBSD Questions Subject: Re: /etc/hosts file ? Message-ID: <20011212020521.GC4861@raggedclown.net> References: <20011211171713.F232@gohan.cjclark.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011211171713.F232@gohan.cjclark.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 05:17:13PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 12:14:15PM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > The documentation on the meaning of the fields for the > > statements contained in this file is clear as mud. > > Did you read the documentation? 'man hosts' Mmm. Seems he couldnr't have. ip-address name alias Doesn't look that complicated to me.. Here is the entry for the machine i am typing this on: 192.168.1.10 tanya.raggedclown.intra tanya ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ Ip address hostname+domainname alias -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message