docs: remove outdated reference to updating /etc/hosts

Starting with docker 1.10, docker no longer uses
/etc/hosts for service discovery, but uses an
embedded DNS server. This patch removes a reference
to the old (pre 1.10) behavior.

Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
Upstream-commit: afe91a5120
Component: cli
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Sebastiaan van Stijn
2017-06-02 00:10:58 +00:00
committed by Tibor Vass
parent 7c4a2f84cd
commit e1322682e0
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@@ -458,10 +458,6 @@ If a container is connected to the default bridge network and `linked`
with other containers, then the container's `/etc/hosts` file is updated
with the linked container's name.
If the container is connected to user-defined network, the container's
`/etc/hosts` file is updated with names of all other containers in that
user-defined network.
> **Note** Since Docker may live update the containers `/etc/hosts` file, there
may be situations when processes inside the container can end up reading an
empty or incomplete `/etc/hosts` file. In most cases, retrying the read again