Re: [squid-users] Stange "Access Denied" issue

On Tuesday 12 August 2003 7:53 pm, Holger Schletz wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> I finally found the cause for my headache. It was a malformed /etc/hosts
> file.
>
> My box has 2 NICs (with 2 IP adresses, of course). The file contained
> something like this:
>
> IPaddr1 mybox.mydomain mybox
> IPaddr2 mybox.mydomain
>
> which is obviously wrong, since mybox.mydomain would resolve to more than
> one distinct IP adress

Why is this "obviously wrong"?

It's quite common for DNS servers to return more than one IP address in
response to a hostname, so why shouldn't /etc/hosts show the same thing?

Antony.

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