hosts file format
- From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ORACLE-L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 15:45:43 +0100
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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