From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 17 21:44:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B58FB37B402 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 21:44:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g0I5iR895378; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:44:27 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200201180544.g0I5iR895378@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: daverk@epix.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hosts file In-Reply-To: <200201180348.g0I3mbvv027307@bean.epix.net> From: Chris Fedde Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:44:26 -0700 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 Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:48:33 -0500 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? +------------------ To amplify on what others have said. The hostfile is only to supplement other means of looking up host names. If you are used to solaris you might see lots of entries in hosts since the convention is to use names rather than addresses in all the boot time scripts. It can be convenient to have a few names in there if you have a home lan and want to refer to stations by name. But it is not strictly necessary. -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message