From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 13 10:30:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay3-gui.server.ntli.net (relay3-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.4.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5725D37B41B for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:30:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc3-card4-0-cust122.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([62.254.251.122] helo=rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net ident=exim) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 16EaZD-0002cO-00; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 18:26:47 +0000 Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16EaBn-0000qn-00; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 18:02:35 +0000 Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 18:02:35 +0000 From: Ceri To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /etc/hosts file ? FBSD doc suck Message-ID: <20011213180235.GA3138@rhadamanth> References: <20011212175225.A14728@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> <20011212192729.GA3270@rhadamanth> <006201c18349$1ab70da0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <006201c18349$1ab70da0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> 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 Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 09:10:54PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Ceri writes: > > > My point is that they can't be fixed unless we > > know what's wrong with them. > > Take the information I provided in my original answer, and add it to the man > page. But some of the information you provided in your answer is fallacious : ``The hosts file will take precedence.'' That ain't necessarily so. I agree with what others have said in this thread; the manpage isn't there to tell you what an IP address is, or what an alias is, so if that's the root of the OP's problem, then the manpage isn't the place to fix it I'm afraid. However, since he's failed to reply to my question with anything other than another question, I suggest we kill this thread here until he does. Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message