From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@primate.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: hostname problem : solved
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 21:01:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161004035803.13012.2B5892FF@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161004000402.GG1705@ca.inter.net>
On 2016-10-03 20:04, Philip Webb wrote:
> However, I'm now wondering whether/why the system needs both
> /etc/hosts + /etc/conf.d/hostname , which seem to do the same thing.
> Can anyone explain ?
/etc/hosts does a quite different job, it maps names to IP addresses.
It is basically an alternative to DNS, for names which aren't in the
global DNS name space, such as "localhost" - because each person's
"localhost" is distinct.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-04 4:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-02 11:41 [gentoo-user] hostname problem Philip Webb
2016-10-02 11:47 ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2016-10-02 11:56 ` Mick
2016-10-02 12:06 ` [gentoo-user] hostname problem : solved Philip Webb
2016-10-04 0:04 ` Philip Webb
2016-10-04 4:01 ` Ian Zimmerman [this message]
2016-10-04 15:23 ` [gentoo-user] " Philip Webb
2016-10-04 12:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Todd Goodman
2016-10-04 15:19 ` Philip Webb
2016-10-04 15:42 ` William Hubbs
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