On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> Last night, a friend suggested ordering the machine's IP entry in
> /etc/hosts such that the fqd name appeared before the simply machine
> name, and that worked as well. Is there anything wrong with that
> approach?
from hosts(5):
DESCRIPTION
This manual page describes the format of the /etc/hosts
file. This file is a simple text file that associates IP
addresses with hostnames, one line per IP address. For each
host a single line should be present with the following
information:
IP_address canonical_hostname aliases
is there any particular reason for you had it the other way around?
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