[NTLUG:Discuss] format of /etc/hosts file

[Eric Waguespack]

yes.


the hosts file is supposed to be a list of ip addresses with white-space
delimitted aliases, in any order.

all of the ip addresses must be uniq....

so....

good:
192.168.123.1 www.v1agra.com www.freestd.com

bad:
192.168.123.1 www.v1agra.com
192.168.123.1 www.freestd.com



On 12/19/05, m m <llliiilll at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all:
>
> Waht is the right format of /ect/hosts?
>
> (1)
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost  localhost.localdomain
> or
> 127.0.0.1  localhost.localdomain localhost
>
>
> (2)
> 192.168.1.1  host1  www aaa1.com bbb1.com ccc1.com
> 192.168.1.2  host2  www aaa2.com bbb2.com ccc2.com
> or
> 192.168.1.1  host1
> 192.168.1.1 www.aaa1.com  aaa1.com
> 192.168.1.1  www.bbb1.com bbb1.com
> 192.168.1.1  www.ccc1.com  ccc1.com
> 192.168.1.1  host2
> 192.168.1.1 www.aaa2.com  aaa2.com
> 192.168.1.1  www.bbb2.com bbb2.com
> 192.168.1.1  www.ccc2.com  ccc2.com
> or
> 192.168.1.1  host1
> 192.168.1.1 aaa1.com  www.aaa1.com
> 192.168.1.1  bbb1.com www.bbb1.com
> 192.168.1.1  ccc1.com  www.ccc1.com
> 192.168.1.1  host2
> 192.168.1.1 aaa2.com  www.aaa2.com
> 192.168.1.1  bbb2.com www.bbb2.com
> 192.168.1.1  ccc2.com  www.ccc2.com
>
>
> basically, I am confused how /etc/hosts be read and applied by the
> application, expecially by apache, sanemail, qmail. (maybe none of then
> use
> it?!,  the order was set to host, dns)
>
> thanks.
>
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