From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 10 21:31:15 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 BFDD016A400 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:31:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@placidpublishing.net) Received: from mail.placidpublishing.net (placidpublishing.net [72.232.50.130]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0B3013C458 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:31:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@placidpublishing.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.placidpublishing.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1257C50823; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:36:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mail.placidpublishing.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.placidpublishing.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 58376-09; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:36:22 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.1.20] (c-67-175-92-171.hsd1.il.comcast.net [67.175.92.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.placidpublishing.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FFD250820; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:36:22 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <461C0243.10906@placidpublishing.net> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:31:47 -0500 From: "Placid Publishing, LLC" Organization: Placid Publishing, LLC User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: L33T Networks References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about the /etc/hosts file X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: peter@placidpublishing.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:31:15 -0000 Thats a FQDN (fully qualified domain name) 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? > > Thanks in advance! > > Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >