Question about the /etc/hosts file

[Derek Ragona]

At 03:48 PM 4/10/2007, L33T Networks wrote:
>What is the second line with 10.20.30.199, and the hostname ends in a
>period? I've never seen this in a host file previous to FBSD v.6.
>
>apollo# cat /etc/hosts
>#::1                    localhost.mydomain.com localhost
>127.0.0.1               localhost.mydomain.com localhost
>10.20.30.199            apollo.mydomain.com apollo
>10.20.30.199            apollo.mydomain.com.
>
>Is this something that's required for other IP addresses that will be added
>to the hosts file in the future?

Names ending in a dot represent the fully qualified domain name.  You do it 
all on one line but it gets too long to easily see and edit.

         -Derek

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