And then spake Perry E. Metzger as follows:
> [...] I maintain a bunch of extra ip addresses on some of my
> interfaces to do various tricks with. This seems like a nice clean way
> of specifying these addresses. It goes at the end of /etc/netstart. Do
> people like the idea or hate it?
> [...]

I like it.

It would be even better if it handled comments in hostaliases.

I'd say, send-pr it.

It would be a good idea if there weren't a hostaliases file distributed
with the releases. It would be confusing.

my $.02 + tax,
-Brian

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