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authorbri <284789+b-@users.noreply.github.com>2023-01-13 12:10:03 -0500
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2023-01-13 12:10:03 -0500
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add reference to /etc/hosts
This mainly for search engine optimization -- it took me too much effort to get the correct results I wanted by searching the Internet for `vyos hosts file`
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@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ Static Hostname Mapping
How an IP address is assigned to an interface in :ref:`ethernet-interface`.
This section shows how to statically map an IP address to a hostname for local
-(meaning on this VyOS instance) name resolution.
+(meaning on this VyOS instance) name resolution. This is the VyOS equivalent to
+`/etc/hosts` file entries.
.. cfgcmd:: set system static-host-mapping host-name <hostname> inet <address>