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Re: Examples of local-host-entries or hosts-service-type?
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Bruno Victal |
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Re: Examples of local-host-entries or hosts-service-type? |
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Fri, 3 Mar 2023 14:00:20 +0000 |
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On 2023-03-02 08:47, Remco van 't Veer wrote:
> I not sure all applications will react well to having multiple entries
> for the same IP-address.
[...]
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> From the hosts(5) manpage:
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>> This file is a simple text file that associates IP addresses with
>> hostnames, one line per IP address.
It doesn't state that the IP addresses must be unique.
Were that the case then blacklists such as
<https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts>
which employ the hosts file method would be broken.
AFAIK this method has around for a long time, I don't see this behavior
changing anytime soon
even if it turned out to be "against spec".
Cheers,
Bruno