[nycbug-talk] /etc/hosts

[Roland Dowdeswell]

On 1108396453 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
steve rieger wrote:
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>hi all,
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>is there a difference between these two and if so can you elaborate
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>cat /etc/hosts
>192.10.20.25 yoyo.mama.com yoyo
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>cat /etc/hosts
>192.10.20.25 yoyo yoyo.mama.com

Yes.  getnameinfo()/gethostbyaddr() will return the first name that
appears.  So, in general, you put the FQDN first unless you are in
an environment where you need name resolution to return non-FQDNs.

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    Roland Dowdeswell                      http://www.Imrryr.ORG/~elric/