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<A NAME=6087> </A>
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<tt>/etc/hosts</tt> contains a list of IP addresses and the hostnames that
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they correspond to. In general, <tt>/etc/hosts</tt> only contains entries
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for your local machine, and perhaps other ``important'' machines (such
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as your nameserver or gateway). Your local name server will provide
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address-to-name mappings for other machines on the network, transparently.
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For example, if your machine is <tt>loomer.vpizza.com</tt> with the IP address
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128.253.154.32, your <tt>/etc/hosts</tt> would look like:
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<P><TT> <PRE>127.0.0.1 localhost
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128.253.154.32 loomer.vpizza.com loomer
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If you're only using
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loopback, the only line in <tt>/etc/hosts</tt> should be for 127.0.0.1, with
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both <tt>localhost</tt> and your hostname after it.
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<I>Matt Welsh <BR>
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