From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 29 13:52:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6396037B405 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 13:52:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tninet.se (sheridan.tninet.se [195.100.94.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13C5D43E06 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 13:52:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tdv94ped@cs.umu.se) Received: from cs.umu.se (h25n1c1o1023.bredband.skanova.com [213.64.164.25]) by sheridan.tninet.se (BMR ErlangTM/OTP 3.0) with ESMTP id 85334.383942.1025.0s6570829sheridan for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 22:52:22 +0200 Message-ID: <3D1E1E06.C8C18175@cs.umu.se> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 22:52:22 +0200 From: Paul Everlund X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: sv,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: /etc/hosts Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Hi everyone! Reading this in the /etc/hosts file: #::1 localhost localhost.my.domain #127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain # # Imaginary network. #10.0.0.2 myname.my.domain myname #10.0.0.3 myfriend.my.domain myfriend Seems like the first states alias and then full hostname (127.0.0.1). The imaginary network (10.0.0.2) seems to be full hostname and then the alias. Which should it be? I've always used IP, full hostname, and alias for everything in the hosts file. Can someone spread some light on this? Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message