20 Mar
2022
20 Mar
'22
8:08 a.m.
On Sun, 2022-03-20 at 08:50 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Mar 20, 2022, at 04:17, Tim via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
When has the /etc/hosts file ever given anything an IP address?
I don’t know the exact details of this particular problem, but if you install the “dnsmasq” package, it includes dns and dhcp service, and by default it parses /etc/hosts and uses it for DNS names.
I think Tim's point is that the /etc/hosts file doesn't *assign* IP addresses, it merely *records* them.
poc