What goes in /etc/hosts?

[Nat Gross]

Brian Fahrlander wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 12:02 -0500, Nat Gross wrote:
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>>When you say append .local, is that referring to all machines on the 
>>local net, or only to this one local host. In other words, for the other 
>>hosts on the lan, do I also need to append .local?
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>    ...for the local net, yeah.  If you put both names in /etc/hosts
>it'll work the way you think, and the way you want:
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>    192.168.1.5   router.local router
>    192.168.1.10  mybox.local  mybox
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>               (and so on)
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>    This is something understood by the collection of machines involved;
>it can be anything. ".local" could easily be ".shoehorn" just as long as
>every machine knows about it. ".local" just keeps it straight, for me.
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Thank you all.
-nat