Martin Gregorie wrote:

> 1)Add a line something like:
>
> 192.168.0.n pi0name pi0name.localdomain
>
>   to /etc/hosts on the Pi zero - where 'n' is an unused IP in the
>   168.192.0 subnet and 'pi0name' is whatever unused host name
>   you want to give it.
>
> 2)Now make sure that /etc/hosts contains a single line containing the
>   host name you've given

The hosts file has nothing to do with setting up networking.

It only matches host names to IP adresses in a static environment.

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