Editing hosts file SharePoint 2010 Production

Hello,
I have SharePoint 2010 Farm, and I have two web applications; mysite and sharepoint.
How do I suppose to change hosts file?
I currently have
127.0.0.1 sharepoint
127.0.0.1 mysite
Do I need to put NLB IP address instead of 127.0.0.1?
Thanks

There isn't really a reason to use a hosts file. For Search Crawl traffic, using the HOSTS file is not the proper way to target search, instead using the Web Application property SiteDataServers, or I have a project that makes this graphical, https://crawl.codeplex.com.
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