my hosts

[fellons]

Do you think are possible modify manually /etc/hosts ?
Do you know what is the format ? (I think tab).


On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:35:44 +0100, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
> Am Mi, den 15.12.2004 schrieb Gregory.Alexander at computacenter.com um
> 12:14:
> 
> > localhost is the loopback device, for example if you installed a
> > webserver, you could access it via http://localhost, it means that you can
> > setup and test network software without having a network.
> > I always use "ifconfig" to setup network devices.
> 
> > Greg Alexander
> 
> Gregory,
> 
> why do you reply to my posting? What do you want to tell me with the
> content?
> 
> Speaking about the original posters mail, his question was not about the
> loopback device but the eth0 ethernet device and the IP <--> name
> mapping.
> 
> Btw. setting up the ethernet devices manually using ifconfig is not
> needed in any way and gives no advantage as the network scripts do so
> using the more modern iproute2.
> 
> Alexander
> 
> P.S. Please do not post HTML formatted mails to this list. Especially
> avoid to send this stupid disclaimer to a public, archived mailinglist
> and strip quotation please. O, and don't modify the subject line.
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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