From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 10 20:53:54 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D76016A401 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:53:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-227-250.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ABF213C459 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:53:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l3AKrEtR091268; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:53:14 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20070410155137.0257aea8@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:52:43 -0500 To: L33T Networks , User Questions From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Question about the /etc/hosts file X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:53:54 -0000 At 03:48 PM 4/10/2007, L33T Networks wrote: >What is the second line with 10.20.30.199, and the hostname ends in a >period? I've never seen this in a host file previous to FBSD v.6. > >apollo# cat /etc/hosts >#::1 localhost.mydomain.com localhost >127.0.0.1 localhost.mydomain.com localhost >10.20.30.199 apollo.mydomain.com apollo >10.20.30.199 apollo.mydomain.com. > >Is this something that's required for other IP addresses that will be added >to the hosts file in the future? Names ending in a dot represent the fully qualified domain name. You do it all on one line but it gets too long to easily see and edit. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.