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References: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOEECJCJAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com> <20011211171713.F232@gohan.cjclark.org> <20011212020521.GC4861@raggedclown.net>
Subject: Re: /etc/hosts file ?
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 04:11:15 +0100
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The man hosts "documentation" is very brief and opaque.

I suspect that answering the question would be much more productive than
personally attacking the person who asked it.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cliff Sarginson" <cliff@raggedclown.net>
To: "FBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 03:05
Subject: Re: /etc/hosts file ?


> 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
>
>
>
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