On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 07:59, Michael D Green wrote:
Hi!
When I add lines like the following to my hosts file on the machine puddleglum:
198.162.0.201 fred.puddleglum.mylocaldomain.com fred.puddleglum 198.162.0.201 lili.puddleglum.mylocaldomain.com lili.puddleglum 198.162.0.201 lulu.puddleglum.mylocaldomain.com lulu.puddleglum ^ ^ | | - FQDM goes here - aliases here
FQDM = fully qualified domain name. This is not correct!
something (!?!) comes along behind me and "corrects" these lines (it leaves the other lines alone) to simply:
198.162.0.201 puddleglum.mylocaldomain.com puddleglum
It did this because this is the correct syntax for hostnames. IP address FQDM aliases (as many as needed seperated by a space) Ken