Changeset 673b0d8 for chapter07/hosts.xml

Timestamp:

05/03/2004 10:59:46 AM (20 years ago)

Author:

Matthew Burgess <matthew@…>

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Children:

0c43171, 2ec64b3, a4a675f

Parents:

287ea55

Message:

• Merged newxml into HEAD

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3435 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter07/hosts.xml (modified) (4 diffs)

chapter07/hosts.xml

@@ +1 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
+  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+  %general-entities;
+]>
 <sect1 id="ch-scripts-hosts">
 <title>Creating the /etc/hosts file</title>
-<?dbhtml filename="hosts.html" dir="chapter07"?>
+<?dbhtml filename="hosts.html"?>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-scripts-hosts"><primary sortas="e-/etc/hosts">/etc/hosts</primary></indexterm>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-scripts-hosts">
+<primary sortas="d-localnet">localnet</primary>
+<secondary>/etc/hosts</secondary></indexterm>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-scripts-hosts">
+<primary sortas="d-network">network</primary>
+<secondary>/etc/hosts</secondary></indexterm>
 
 <para>If a network card is to be configured, you have to decide on the
@@ -9 +24 @@
 <screen>&lt;IP address&gt; myhost.example.org aliases</screen>
 
-<para>You should make sure that the IP-address is in the private network
+<para>Unless your computer is to be visible to the Internet (e.g. you have a registered domain and a valid block of assigned IP addresses - most of us don't have this)you should make sure that the IP-address is in the private network
 IP-address range. Valid ranges are:</para>
 
@@ -18 +33 @@
 
 <para>A valid IP address could be 192.168.1.1. A valid FQDN for this IP could
-be www.linuxfromscratch.org.</para>
+be www.linuxfromscratch.org (not recommended as this is a valid registered domain address and could cause your domain name server problems).</para>
 
 <para>If you aren't going to use a network card, you still need to 
@@ -53 +68 @@
 
 </sect1>
-