/etc/hosts

[Madison Kelly]

It is certainly unusual but I don't see it being a problem. It is I 
guess sort of like have two or more DNS entries pointing to the same IP 
address.

Madison

Max Blanco wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have an unconnected local subnet.
> I have one machine on it so far.
> I wonder what will be the effect if I have two entries in the /etc/hosts 
> file for the same machine?
> 
> 192.168.1.9	johannes	johaness.blanco.org
> 192.168.1.9	geeklog		geeklog.net
> 
> Is this kosher?
> resolveip seems to find both entries.
> 
> max.
> 
> 
> 
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