On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 08:23:35AM -0600, Michael D. Harnois wrote: | On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 03:20, John Smith wrote: | | > just to be sure, you say 'identical', they are not useing the | > same hostname, I hope? | | Well, no, they aren't. But the hosts files are identical; it's only the | /etc/hostname file that needs to be different.
The hosts file need to be different, otherwise they'll both have the
same hostname as reported by gethostbyaddr().
gethostbyaddr(127.0.0.1) is used by a lot of software to determine the
real name of the local machine.
-D
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