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Add a note about hosts being ok in multiple groups.

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Michael DeHaan
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@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ The format for /etc/ansible/hosts is an INI format and looks like this::
The things in brackets are group names, which are used in classifying systems
and deciding what systems you are controlling at what times and for what purpose.
It is ok to put systems in more than one group, for instance a server could be both a webserver and a dbserver.
If you do, note that variables will come from all of the groups they are a member of, and variable precedence is detailed in a later chapter.
If you have hosts that run on non-standard SSH ports you can put the port number
after the hostname with a colon. Ports listed in your SSH config file won't be used,
so it is important that you set them if things are not running on the default port::