On Sun, 2022-03-20 at 08:50 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Mar 20, 2022, at 04:17, Tim via users
<users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
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> 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