topic title: Using the hosts file
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skidoo
Joined: 09 Feb 2012
#16
Ninho wrote:Question: regarding the / etc/hosts in Linux, esp. antiX -
can we have several hosts per one single line just
like the host file in Windows (where one line can accept as many
as 9 hostnames, iirc, for one and the same IP) ? Does this trick
(useful for shortening hosts list somewhat) also work in Linux ?

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