Hi, In this particular case, it was obvbious. The services on my box are only litening on one interface. This puts up the need for distinct names for the two interfaces.
We're getting off topic now... Bye, Holger Am Dienstag, 12. August 2003 21:42 schrieb Antony Stone: > On Tuesday 12 August 2003 7:53 pm, Holger Schletz wrote: > > Hi again, > > > > I finally found the cause for my headache. It was a malformed /etc/hosts > > file. > > > > My box has 2 NICs (with 2 IP adresses, of course). The file contained > > something like this: > > > > IPaddr1 mybox.mydomain mybox > > IPaddr2 mybox.mydomain > > > > which is obviously wrong, since mybox.mydomain would resolve to more than > > one distinct IP adress > > Why is this "obviously wrong"? > > It's quite common for DNS servers to return more than one IP address in > response to a hostname, so why shouldn't /etc/hosts show the same thing? > > Antony.
