On Sun, 2022-03-20 at 08:50 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Mar 20, 2022, at 04:17, Tim via users > <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > When has the /etc/hosts file ever given anything an IP address? > > I don’t know the exact details of this particular problem, but if you > install the “dnsmasq” package, it includes dns and dhcp service, and > by default it parses /etc/hosts and uses it for DNS names. I think Tim's point is that the /etc/hosts file doesn't *assign* IP addresses, it merely *records* them. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure