Re: Why doesn't NetBSD recognize my entries in /etc/hosts?

[Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost>]

On 9/17/2015 1:32 PM, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> On 16 September 2015 at 23:13, Matt Sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> > Show us a sample hosts entry and the full output of your ping, please.
> Ok, this is not necessary now.
>
> For some reasons, I have redone the whole process today and the
> entries were correctly redirected to 0.0.0.0 as expected.
>
> There must have been a file corruption when downloading the file from:
> http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt
>
> The first time I just downloaded it with wget.
>
> Now I have selected all text and copied it into leafpad, then moved it
> to /etc/hosts.
>
> There might have been some extra line feed that could have prevented
> the file from being parsed correctly.
Yep, there definitely are carriage returns (not line feeds), but it's 
not file corruption, it's just a MS Windows style text file.
If you open it in vi you'll clearly see all the "^M"'s at the end of 
each line.

Assuming you'll want to fetch an updated copy of that file in the 
future, you can automatically trim those off with something like this:
ftp -o - http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt | tr -d '\r' > hosts.txt

(wget should work too, but NetBSD's ftp does what you need without any 
extra packages)

Eric