[nycbug-talk] etc/hosts

[Dan Langille]

On 12 Sep 2006 at 15:46, Steve Rieger wrote:

> on fbsd,
> 
> www2# cat hosts
> 127.0.0.1               localhost.x.net localhost
> x.x.x.252         www.x.net www
> x.x.x.252         www.x.net.
> 
> 
> 
> is the . at the end required ?
> 
> me dont think so, looking for confirmation.

It is not, but it can be useful.   If for example, you have this in 
/etc/resolv.conf:

search unixathome.org

And you're doing host names such as freebsd.org.unixathome.org, the 
freebsd.org. will take you to the FreeBSD website, and freebsd.org 
will take you to .... Ummm, well that doesn't work, but that's the 
example I was trying to give....

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