Paul Howarth wrote: >> FWIW, the hosts file is used to determine the IP address of where you >> want to go. The file is used in looking up in very simple linear >> fashion. So, the last 2 lines are kind of meaningless since it is only >> the first match that is used. > > Not entirely meaningless. Reverse lookups of 10.1.1.1 and 192.168.1.226 > should return "box1" with these lines present, which they wouldn't do > otherwise. Pretty meaningless...even if it did work...and I have serious doubts of that. No practical use. >> On "box1" type "ping box1" and you will always see that the loopback >> address of 127.0.0.1 is always used. > > I'd drop the "box1" from that localhost line too. You may have noticed that the OP states that taking box1 off the localhost line causes his boots to take a long time. Another configuration issue most likely....but I get the feeling that quite a few things may be mis-configured on his system. :-)
