Host are not properly defined

[Betty Hardin]

I see entries in a hosts file defined like this:



(Others are like they are supposed to be.)

What might potentially break if I fix this ?

TIA!

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Betty,

Nothing will break. The domain and the alias are synonomous.


Pete

[Betty Hardin]

That's what I thought. Thank you very much.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Betty:

It doesn'nt matter. The 'gethostbyname()' function reads the '/etc/hosts' file (in this case) without regard to case from the beginning of the file until a host name (among either the official names or the aliases) matching its name parameter is found, or until EOF is encountered.

Regards!

...JRF...