[OT]Mac Hosts file setting?
Bruce ONeel
beoneel at bluewin.ch
Tue Jan 15 08:07:45 UTC 2002
This looks very familiar, like it came from some old version
DNS. The A means it's an address record, right? As differeing
from say a MX record.
As my memory slowly seeps away :-)
cheers
bruce
Tim Rowledge <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu> wrote:
> Tim Rowledge <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu> is widely believed to have written:
>
> > Does anyone know how to persuade a Mac (OS9) to accept foo.bar as
> > 127.0.0.1 - like adding a line to the hosts file on unix? My TCPIP
> > control panel has a button to open a dialogue to choose ahosts file, but
> > it doesn't appear to accept a text file in unix-like format.
> >
> > Anybody ever got this to work?
> Finally got an answer to this. The Mac Hosts file is not _quite_ like a
> unix one (of course)
>
> {domain.name.} A {IP}
>
> works. Note the terminating . on the domainname and the 'A'. No idea
> why....
>
> tim
> --
> Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
> Years of development: We finally got one to work.
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