* On 2019 18 Mar 06:35 -0500, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
 
> I wrote "the IP address is in /etc/hosts", but I think that should have
> been "the IP address what your hostname resolves to" :-/
> 
> In many common scenarios that is likely to be the same as what is in
> your /etc/hosts file, but really depends on how name resolution is
> configured on your machine.
> 
> Hope this helps,

Thanks, Olaf.

I just replied as it seemed like an interesting thought exercise.

:-)

- Nate

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