On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 13:08 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > David Timms (dtimms@xxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > - it dislikes [_] at all. [_ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.ldap.myweb.com.au] is a > > That looks an awful lot like an mDNS name. No it is an SRV (service) record use for Microsoft Active Directory domains. But, it make no sense to put such a record in /etc/hosts, because etc hosts is only about host names not service records, so that entry is basically just useless in /etc/hosts. (And _ is valid in the names for SRV records). Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list