Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:54:51 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about the /etc/hosts file Message-ID: <20070411015451.142f4807@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20070410155137.0257aea8@mail.computinginnovations.com> References: <C2414611.4E8%fbsdhelp@l33tnetworks.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20070410155137.0257aea8@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:52:43 -0500 Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> wrote: > 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. > But that doesn't explain why apollo.mydomain.com. appears as both a FQDN and a PQDN
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