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. -- What is this talk of software 'release' ? Our software evolves and matures until it becomes capable of escape, leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
