hosts file format

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 15:45:43 +0100
Message-ID: <CABe10sYmK-RRwOfkovmz5+1rr0+jpPY+UvumkCE+LJ2s2w0u5w_at_mail.gmail.com>

Does anyone here know if the habit of various oracle products to require the hosts file format to be in the form
XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX HOSTNAME.DOMAINNAME HOSTNAME <any aliases>

reflects an industry standard anywhere. I've come across a large number of systems now where you find lines like

XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX HOSTNAME HOSTNAME.DOMAINNAME <any aliases> or

XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX     HOSTNAME.DOMAINNAME  HOSTNAME
XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX     <alias1>
XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX     <alias2>

and so on.

RFC 952 (which admittedly dates from when I was still in full time education!) doesn't seem to specify the format oracle seems to prefer/require or even one line per ip address (though that seems sensible to me).
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.orawin.info

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