* On 2019 18 Mar 06:35 -0500, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > I wrote "the IP address is in /etc/hosts", but I think that should have > been "the IP address what your hostname resolves to" :-/ > > In many common scenarios that is likely to be the same as what is in > your /etc/hosts file, but really depends on how name resolution is > configured on your machine. > > Hope this helps,
Thanks, Olaf. I just replied as it seemed like an interesting thought exercise. :-) - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: http://www.n0nb.us GPG key: D55A8819 GitHub: N0NB
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