man: document _outbound
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gateway addresses, ordered by their metric. This assigns a stable hostname to the current gateway,
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useful for referencing it independently of the current network configuration state.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The hostname <literal>_outbound</literal> is resolved to the local IPv4 and IPv6
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addresses that are most likely used for communication with other hosts. This is determined by
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requesting a routing decision to the configured default gateways from the kernel and then using the
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local IP addresses selected by this decision. This hostname is only available if there is at least one
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local default gateway configured. This assigns a stable hostname to the local outbound IP addresses,
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useful for referencing them independently of the current network configuration state.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The mappings defined in <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> are resolved to their
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configured addresses and back, but they will not affect lookups for non-address types (like MX).
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Support for <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> may be disabled with <varname>ReadEtcHosts=no</varname>,
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