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From: Romain Kang <romain@kzsu.stanford.edu>
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Subject: Re: /etc/hosts lines starting with white space are ignored
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On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 06:29:00PM -0500, David Scheidt wrote:
> If a line in /etc/hosts starts with a space or tab, it's not read. I'm 
> not sure that's really a desirable behavior.  I'm quite sure it's not 
> the vehavior I expected.

The format of /etc/hosts has been thus for more than 20 years over
multiple platforms, so it's what everyone else expects.  Sorry.

Romain