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.