On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:39:39 +0200 (CEST), Tamas TEVESZ <ice@???> penned:
> 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?
Sheer ignorance, I suppose.
Nope, no particular reason.
Thanks for the pointer.
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monique
