[Nix-dev] [***SPAM***] Re: /etc/hosts

[Michael Raskin]

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>In fact, "localhost.<domain>" looks very weird.  Why would that ever be 
>needed?  There shouldn't be a "localhost" in whatever your domain is 
>(unless your DNS server says so).

This can make some things faster when the default DNS server is 
slow/briefly inaccessible. But there seems to be more of a tradition
than of a technical reason.

I have no idea where localhost.localdomain and similar traditions came
from..