On 01/22/2010 01:51 PM, Carlos Williams wrote:
#<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname>
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost mail
10.1.1.200 mail.iamghost.com mail
I have seen multiple styles of hosts file, but I tend to set mine up
like so:
#<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname>
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
10.1.1.200 mail.iamghost.com mail
This kills two birds with one stone - localhost and localhost -f return
the correct info, and it tells the box that "mail" and
"mail.iamghost.com" are both at the non-loopback IP you specify. If
that's not what you want, then you probably want something more like:
#<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname>
127.0.0.1 mail.iamghost.com mail localhost.localdomain localhost
though, even then, some folks will say that this is also incorrect and you need to designate a loopback per-entry.
-Snark
