12-11-2008
/etc/hosts is a file which lists hostnames associated with IP-adresses. Its kind of a "telephone directory for IP adresses". I don't understand how adding a "range" would further the function of this list. It would be like adding a "range" of telephone numbers to the telephone directory: if there are no names associated with these the information gain would be zilch.
Or am i completely misunderstanding you?
I hope this helps.
bakunin
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avahi.hosts
avahi.hosts(5) File Formats Manual avahi.hosts(5)
NAME
avahi.hosts - avahi-daemon static host name file
SYNOPSIS
/etc/avahi/hosts
DESCRIPTION
/etc/avahi/hosts is a file which may be used to define static host name to IP address mappings for multicast DNS. This is especially useful
when publishing DNS-SD services on behalf of other hosts. See avahi.service(5) for more information.
The file format is similar to the one of /etc/hosts: on each line an IP address and the corresponding host name. The host names should be
in FQDN form, i.e. with appended .local suffix.
AUTHORS
The Avahi Developers <avahi (at) lists (dot) freedesktop (dot) org>; Avahi is available from http://avahi.org/
SEE ALSO
avahi-daemon(8), avahi.service(5)
COMMENTS
This man page was written using xml2man(1) by Oliver Kurth.
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