At 3:49 12/21/95, der Mouse wrote:
>>>> I've solved the problem. I have multiple ethernet cards in a few of
>>>> my machines and I had to assign each interface a unique hostname.
>>> You had to?  I would have thought that mapping each IP-address to
>>> the same host name would have sufficed.
>> I would have thought so also, [...]
>
>It probably would have worked...if you'd been using DNS and thus had
>been able to map the hostname to more than one IP address.  Your sample
>looks like host-file records, not DNS entries.  One major problem with
>hosts files is that they provide no way to accurately represent a name
>that has multiple addresses.

Or, more precisely, the existing code stop looking after it finds the first
match, and this is a bad idea for multihomed hosts.

Erik Fair