From: Bruno Victal <mirai@makinata.eu>
To: Remco van 't Veer <remco@remworks.net>
Cc: Sergiu Ivanov <sivanov@colimite.fr>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Examples of local-host-entries or hosts-service-type?
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 14:00:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1bbcf3d3-2318-e589-2d29-8d6d616ed47b@makinata.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfenletq.fsf@remworks.net>
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.
[...]
>
> From the hosts(5) manpage:
>
>> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-03 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-10 22:40 Examples of local-host-entries or hosts-service-type? Sergiu Ivanov
2023-02-10 23:37 ` Bruno Victal
2023-02-11 11:46 ` Remco van 't Veer
2023-02-13 10:49 ` Sergiu Ivanov
2023-02-14 9:34 ` Remco van 't Veer
2023-02-21 15:33 ` Gary Johnson
2023-02-26 18:33 ` Sergiu Ivanov
2023-02-21 16:45 ` Bruno Victal
2023-02-26 18:05 ` Sergiu Ivanov
2023-02-27 6:23 ` Remco van 't Veer
2023-03-02 2:41 ` Bruno Victal
2023-03-02 8:47 ` Remco van 't Veer
2023-03-03 14:00 ` Bruno Victal [this message]
2023-03-03 16:16 ` Remco van 't Veer
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