From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 17 21:20: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 668E337B402 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 21:20:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Fri, 18 Jan 2002 00:19:35 -0500 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id 3512D3E99; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 00:19:02 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: daverk@epix.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hosts file Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 00:19:01 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <200201180348.g0I3mbvv027307@bean.epix.net> In-Reply-To: <200201180348.g0I3mbvv027307@bean.epix.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020118051902.3512D3E99@i8k.babbleon.org> 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 Thursday 17 January 2002 10:48 pm, Dave Kaufman wrote: > should there be more in my /etc/hosts file than > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > > i'm thinking there should but i'm not finding it in the handbook. shouldn't > there be a reference to my local host name? You can add it as an alias for localhost if you want but whether it's necessary depends on what the machine does. If it's a pure desktop machine that does mail with smtp & pop3 & that sort of thing then it doesn't really need a host name for anything . . . I always do myself, but it's not really required. > > tia > Dave > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message