Linux hosts file

Just a quick reminder to self for later - I had almost forgotten - on how to set up the hosts file. It's important for having a fully qualified hostname for many linux network services to work.

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost       the_hostname
x.x.x.x    subdomain.realdomain.net   the_hostname


The rest of the file might look like this: 
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
Written by: Dag Jonny Nedrelid
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