It is certainly unusual but I don't see it being a problem. It is I guess sort of like have two or more DNS entries pointing to the same IP address. Madison Max Blanco wrote:

Hi All,

I have an unconnected local subnet. I have one machine on it so far. I wonder what will be the effect if I have two entries in the /etc/hosts file for the same machine?

192.168.1.9 johannes johaness.blanco.org 192.168.1.9 geeklog geeklog.net

Is this kosher? resolveip seems to find both entries.

max.

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