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Re: setting host aliases (like /etc/hosts)?

At 4:29 PM -0700 1/30/03, Michael Bartosh wrote:
On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 01:46 PM, Bill Kelly wrote:

I'm trying to figure out how to set up host name aliases for
systems on our local network... I checked /etc/hosts, but it
says it's for single-user runlevel only, and referred me to
lookupd, which gets its info from netinfo, etc...

The file is incorrect. In 10.2 it is consulted.

But it's still probably a better idea to put them in netinfo for an out of the box OS X configuration.

You can simply clone one of the 'machine' records using netinfo manager and edit accordingly.

If you're heavily relying on /etc/hosts you might want to adjust the lookup order for better performance.

YMMV
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