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Re: /etc/hosts: Two lines with the same IP address?



On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 14:54, Thomas Hood wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 18:03, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 11:31, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > > It break ssh X forwarding ...
> >
> > No, it will not. The resolvers stop at the first resolution. Having
> > something like:
> > 
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> > 127.0.0.1 somenode.somedom.com	somenode
> 
> So this is perfectly OK?  Or does this run into other problems?

It would work, but the more correcter (HOW much more correcter? None
more corrector!) version would be a single line with the

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost somenode.somedomain.dom somenode

That way, you have the FQDN of lo and all of its aliases.
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