What goes in /etc/hosts?

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Thu Mar 10 06:45:26 UTC 2005


On 03/09/2005 05:56:28 PM, Brian Fahrlander wrote:

> 
>     I use a simple way to get around this: Everything in 192.168.1.*
> has
> a name like aquila.fahrlander.local, and my webserver is both
> www.fahrlander.net (on the outside) and pip.fahrlander.net on the
> inside.

Does using .local (opposed to a real TLD) require anything special if  
you are using caching nameserver instead of /etc/hosts to define those  
things?

I don't think it should, but I'm curious.

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Michael A. Peters
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