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The description of /etc/hosts says "The format of the host table is described in RFC 952." But that format is not at all close to the format given in this man page. 3 possibilities occur to me: 1) My interpretation that RFC 952 was supposed to give the format of this file is wrong. If so, could the man page be clearer on that point. 2) That RFC is not directly relevant. The reference should be removed or replaced. 3) The format of /etc/hosts is supposed to be that of RFC 952. Then the man page is quite off. Also, the basic syntax description is incomplete. Judging from the examples, the aliases field is optional. So it should be IP_address canonical_hostname [aliases] I also can't tell whether aliases should be separated by commas, whitespace, etc. I stumbled on this because I have an /etc/hosts with a single entry, my non-fully qualified host name. I'm trying to figure out whether that's OK. It seems not to be, under any interpretation.... -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27advncdfs Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
