commit: 24af4fb374c67661fb1bf9dfb842fae70fd7f5f2 Author: William Hubbs <williamh <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Fri Aug 26 19:21:07 2016 +0000 Commit: William Hubbs <williamh <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Fri Aug 26 19:26:33 2016 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/baselayout.git/commit/?id=24af4fb3
etc/hosts: document the alias order Add documentation showing that the first host alias is the canonical host name. X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536624 etc/hosts | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/hosts b/etc/hosts index 8a37ca5..b3d3721 100644 --- a/etc/hosts +++ b/etc/hosts @@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ # This file describes a number of aliases-to-address mappings for the for # local hosts that share this file. # +# The format of lines in this file is: +# +# IP_ADDRESS canonical_hostname [aliases...] +# +#The fields can be separated by any number of spaces or tabs. +# # In the presence of the domain name service or NIS, this file may not be # consulted at all; see /etc/host.conf for the resolution order. #
