Question about the /etc/hosts file

[L33T Networks]

Preceisely ... That would indicate that the PQDN when fully qualified would
appear as:

apollo.mydomain.com.mydomain.com.

Mydomain.com being the domain listed in the resolv.conf file


On 4/10/07 5:54 PM, "RW" <fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:52:43 -0500
> Derek Ragona <derek at computinginnovations.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>> 
> But that doesn't explain why apollo.mydomain.com. appears as both a
> FQDN and a PQDN
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