On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 02:40:55PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > The question has arisen in #247734: > Is it legal for /etc/hosts to contain two lines with the same > IP address? In particular, is the following legal?: > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 127.0.0.1 pingo No, these would be duplicate keys and one of the two will never be used (or they'll be used inconsistently). > What is nice about it is this: > > $ hostname > pingo > $ hostname --fqdn > pingo > One can of course have: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost pingo > > but then: > > $ hostname --fqdn > localhost See other responses for the fix for this; but, er, why would you want the canonical name for 127.0.0.1 to be anything other than "localhost" anyway? That just invites confusion, IMHO. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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