> > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
> > 127.0.0.1 goddard goddard.whateverdomain.domain_extension
> > xxx.x.x.x goddard goddard.whateverdomain.domain_extension
> >
> Map two IP addresses to goddard? Is this appropriate?
This is pretty normal, as long as one's 127.0.0.1. If you had an
Ethernet card and could bind an IP address to it, I don't think
you'd have to map the name to 127.0.0.1. Since you don't have a
card, Linux will probably be totally unwilling to even attempt to
use an IP addresses other than 127.0.0.1.
>It was also my
> understanding that mapping 127.0.0.1 to HOSTNAME is a bad thing. I will try
> this. My thoughts were having to do something with 'insmod dummy' and
> 'route add'. But I get lost in that direction because I actually have no
> Ethernet card so no interface to insmod.
Which is exactly why this is about your only option, and in fact, there's
really not a lot of point in mapping the second IP addy to goddard. I
should retract that. Don't take my word as the final law, though. I'm
not an expert on this and I certainly don't know everything. What I do
know is that this *should* work, although it may not be the only way
to do it. Try it and see what happens.
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Bill Kocik
Information Systems
Medar, Inc.
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