On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 03:20:09PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > hosts: files mymachines dns myhostname
> That's as installed, but hosts: line looks skunky to me. > what do mymachines and myhostname actually translate to? They are the names of software packages (libraries) that are installed on your system. https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/libnss-mymachines/nss-mymachines.8.en.html https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/libnss-myhostname/nss-myhostname.8.en.html They shouldn't actually do anything, so long as the hostname being looked up ("localhost" in this case) is found in /etc/hosts first.
