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Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?



On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 10:38:58PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:

> This is one place where Solaris has gotten this right: /etc/nodename
> refers to the system itself, while each interface has its own (cf:
> /etc/hostname.hme0).

That is still no good for linux since a single interface can have many
addresses that all map to different names in the DNS.

Gabor

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