Re: Is there any point to full host names in /etc/hosts ?

On Fri, 2 Nov 2007 12:44:11 +0100, Rikishi 42 wrote:
This is the situation: a friend and I both use a broadband router with a few
machines behind them, at our respective homes. We each picked a name for our
'domain'. His is fictional.

I would recommend adding .invalid to those domain names that are not
owned by you/him, just incase email escapes the local lan.

You might want to read http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt

Here is a snippet from mine.
$ head -5 /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.31 wb7.home.invalid wb7
192.168.1.11 fw.home.invalid fw
192.168.1.12 wb1.home.invalid wb1
.

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