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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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To: dkelly@tomcat1.tbe.com (David Kelly)
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Subject: Re: "man hosts" question
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> In helping a non-unix friend setup FreeBSD for the first time I checked
> "man hosts" and now think this FreeBSD man page is in error.
> Shouldn't the internet address preceed the official host name? No where
> else in the man page does it suggest the correct order is any other than
> the above list.

Indeed it should.  Thanks for pointer out the error, it's now been
fixed.


Nate