On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 21:50, Todd Lyons wrote:
> Praedor Tempus wrote on Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 03:49:25PM -0500 :
> > 
> > /etc/hosts:
> > 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
> good start
> 
> > 127.0.0.1       lapdog.ravenhome.net    lapdog
> bad.  Delete it.

Out of curiosity, why is it "bad" to have two lines with different
hostnames pointing at the same IP address? Other than the fact that it
isn't very elegant?

I have it in my system because it is a laptop, and I never know from one
day to the next what my IP address will be. Therefore, I make it really
easy for my system to resolve the IP address of itself, by pointing it
at the standard localhost address.

-- 
Dave Sherman               Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, 
MCSE, MCSA, CCNA             for you are crunchy,
                             and good with ketchup.
"lynx -source http://sildara.dyndns.org/davepub.asc | gpg --import"

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Reply via email to