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	[quote name="Commander Tansin A. Darcos"][quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"]There is something I don't quite understand about the hosts file. Here is my hosts file: icj@denofiniquity:~$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 ubuntu 99.999.999.999 icjmachine.domain.com icjmachine (It's not really 99.x, it's my IP address from linode) What on earth is "domain.com" doing? All the tutorials say you can have anything there for domain.com. I don't see how it can be arbitrary. I don't see how it can be arbitrary and still provide some useful function, haha.[/quote] I agree. If it's arbitrary, it should use an IETF-assigned arbitrary domain name of "example.com", "example.org" or "example.net" as these will always be reserved for non-network (and non-routing) use the way networks 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, and 192.168.0.0/16 are for private network use and 100.64.0.0/10 is for carriers to use internally only and not to use even for private routing. [/quote]