Hosts file

[John Summerfield]

Tim wrote:

>> If the file is empty and it is on my client the hosts file should,d be
>> untouched.
> 
> That would depend on the defaults.  The defaults would, most likely, be
> to do everything that the DHCP server tells you to.

Last time I looked, the default was to do very little. Basically, set 
IP, netmask, broadcast, router and DNS. It would be useful to set the 
mail gateway and some other stuff, but I've not seen any distro do so.



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