What goes in /etc/hosts?

[Brian Fahrlander]

On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 12:02 -0500, Nat Gross wrote:

> 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?

    ...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:

    192.168.1.5   router.local router
    192.168.1.10  mybox.local  mybox

               (and so on)

    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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