s-c-network: legit hosts file entries

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Fri Apr 25 17:39:34 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 13:08 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> David Timms (dtimms at iinet.net.au) said: 
> > - it dislikes [_] at all. [_ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.ldap.myweb.com.au] is a 
> 
> That looks an awful lot like an mDNS name.

No it is an SRV (service) record use for Microsoft Active Directory
domains.

But, it make no sense to put such a record in /etc/hosts, because etc
hosts is only about host names not service records, so that entry is
basically just useless in /etc/hosts.

(And _ is valid in the names for SRV records).

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York




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