Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 04:11:15 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Cliff Sarginson" <cliff@raggedclown.net>, "FBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: /etc/hosts file ? Message-ID: <017c01c182ba$a9e09440$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOEECJCJAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com> <20011211171713.F232@gohan.cjclark.org> <20011212020521.GC4861@raggedclown.net>
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The man hosts "documentation" is very brief and opaque. I suspect that answering the question would be much more productive than personally attacking the person who asked it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cliff Sarginson" <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: "FBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 03:05 Subject: Re: /etc/hosts file ? > On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 05:17:13PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 12:14:15PM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > The documentation on the meaning of the fields for the > > > statements contained in this file is clear as mud. > > > > Did you read the documentation? 'man hosts' > > Mmm. Seems he couldnr't have. > > ip-address name alias > > Doesn't look that complicated to me.. > > Here is the entry for the machine i am typing this on: > > 192.168.1.10 tanya.raggedclown.intra tanya > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ > Ip address hostname+domainname alias > > -- > Regards > Cliff > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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