Re: hosts file format

From: Nuno Souto <dbvision_at_iinet.net.au>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:42:51 +1000
Message-ID: <4E6B14FB.7030006_at_iinet.net.au>

Niall Litchfield wrote,on my timestamp of 9/09/2011 12:45 AM:

> 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).

I've seen hosts files with the same IP address in multiple lines - usually due to error in editing. What seems to happen is the last address will be the one "picked"for translation. Not sure if because the file is scanned backwards (first match) or until EOF.

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