-----Forwarded Message----- From: Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: DebianDevel List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: /etc/hosts: Two lines with the same IP address? Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 15:11:47 -0400
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 14:54, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 18:03, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 11:31, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > > It break ssh X forwarding ... > > > > No, it will not. The resolvers stop at the first resolution. Having > > something like: > > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > > 127.0.0.1 somenode.somedom.com somenode > > So this is perfectly OK? Or does this run into other problems? It would work, but the more correcter (HOW much more correcter? None more corrector!) version would be a single line with the 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost somenode.somedomain.dom somenode That way, you have the FQDN of lo and all of its aliases. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

