Re: Question about the /etc/hosts file

2007-04-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:54 PM 4/10/2007, RW wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:52:43 -0500 Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:48 PM 4/10/2007, L33T Networks wrote: What is the second line with 10.20.30.199, and the hostname ends in a period? I've never seen this in a host file previous to FBSD v.6.

Question about the /etc/hosts file

2007-04-10 Thread L33T Networks
What is the second line with 10.20.30.199, and the hostname ends in a period? I've never seen this in a host file previous to FBSD v.6. apollo# cat /etc/hosts #::1localhost.mydomain.com localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost.mydomain.com localhost 10.20.30.199

Re: Question about the /etc/hosts file

2007-04-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:48 PM 4/10/2007, L33T Networks wrote: What is the second line with 10.20.30.199, and the hostname ends in a period? I've never seen this in a host file previous to FBSD v.6. apollo# cat /etc/hosts #::1localhost.mydomain.com localhost 127.0.0.1

Re: Question about the /etc/hosts file

2007-04-10 Thread RW
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:52:43 -0500 Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:48 PM 4/10/2007, L33T Networks wrote: What is the second line with 10.20.30.199, and the hostname ends in a period? I've never seen this in a host file previous to FBSD v.6. apollo# cat /etc/hosts #::1

Re: Question about the /etc/hosts file

2007-04-10 Thread L33T Networks
Preceisely ... That would indicate that the PQDN when fully qualified would appear as: apollo.mydomain.com.mydomain.com. Mydomain.com being the domain listed in the resolv.conf file On 4/10/07 5:54 PM, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:52:43 -0500 Derek Ragona [EMAIL