[Dnsmasq-discuss] /etc/hosts question

[Carlos Carvalho]

James Cook (bonkabonka at gmail.com) wrote on 23 January 2007 13:37:
 >In a quest to consolidate config files on my router box, I'm trying to
 >stuff all the knowledge contained in /etc/ethers and /etc/hosts into
 >my dnsmasq.conf file.  The ethers file is cake but there doesn't seem
 >to be any way to add hosts-style alias entries in dnsmasq.conf.

I don't understand your question. dnsmasq can read /etc/hosts and use
it to define the name<->number pairing, so I suppose it accepts
everything possible in /etc/hosts. It does for me.