On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 12:25:36PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 4/1/25 08:59, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 01:36:21PM +0100, mick.crane wrote: > > > On 2025-04-01 13:21, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 12:42:46PM +0100, mick.crane wrote: > > > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > > the spaces look wrong to me > > > > If you mean those: > > > > > > > > > 192.168.71.122 bpi51e5p.coyote.den bpi51 e5p #3dprinter > > > > ^^^ > > > > > ... > > > > > 192.168.71.121 mkspi.coyote.den mkspi xmax3 # 3dprinter > > > > ^^^ > > > > ... they are OK. They separate alternative host names. They mean > > > > that 192.168.71.122 responds to "bpi51e5p.coyote.den", but also > > > > "bpi51" and finally "e5p". Likewise for the other. > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > Ah, thanks. I didn't know you could do that. > > Yes, you can put as many space-separated names in a line as you > > like (well: one or more). > > > > But in a way you are right: the formatting is a bit funny and we > > don't know whether OP means that. My guess is he does. > > =yes. Some of that is spaces and some are tabs, the file does not care. Just > to make it more interesting, t-bird doesn't paste tabs accurately. > > But I'm far more interested in a critique of the nsswitch.conf also attached > previously. In my other answer [1] I quoted the one line of nsswitch.conf which seemed relevant to me: files is first for DNS, so if I didn't miss anything all seems well. Cheers [1] that's the downside of letting threads grow so many arms. -- t
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