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author | William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> | 2016-08-26 14:21:07 -0500 |
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committer | William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> | 2016-08-26 14:26:33 -0500 |
commit | 24af4fb374c67661fb1bf9dfb842fae70fd7f5f2 (patch) | |
tree | e56b1601f99dd99f74a0befdf06f4a93fce16583 | |
parent | share.BSD/fstab: make device names generic (diff) | |
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etc/hosts: document the alias order
Add documentation showing that the first host alias is the canonical
host name.
X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536624
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@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ # This file describes a number of aliases-to-address mappings for the for # local hosts that share this file. # +# The format of lines in this file is: +# +# IP_ADDRESS canonical_hostname [aliases...] +# +#The fields can be separated by any number of spaces or tabs. +# # In the presence of the domain name service or NIS, this file may not be # consulted at all; see /etc/host.conf for the resolution order. # |