C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 12:48 PM, Dave Christensen wrote:
Is there an equivalent to /etc/hosts for Windows? I want to be able access my local RH9 box from my Windows 2000 and Windows 98SE machines without typing 192.168.*.*
Thanks,
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Torrie Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 1:22 AM To: Newbie Help Subject: Re: [newbies] /etc/hosts
On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 01:07, John Noll wrote:I really appreciate all the help./etc/hosts
I'm just not understaniding the naming schemes for linux. Myfile looks like this right now:would
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
What should my /etc/hosts file look like if I want my computer to be named john.example.net? Do I need to specify an ip address? Whatthe command be or am I just as well to do the changes in the redhatguifor network configuration?
You have to understand that the name "john.example.net" is only the name
of your computer to others when you have it in a DNS server somewhere.
For example, my machine at work is called isengard, and it's
fully-qualified name is isengard.chem.byu.edu. But that really only
means anything to other computers because our DNS points isengard to my
ip address. All hosts does is give your local machine a quick way to
resolve simple names that aren't in anyone's DNS. For example, my home
machine's host file looks like:
127.0.0.1 enterprise.local.lan enterprise localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.1 reliant.local.lan reliant 192.168.0.2 enterprise 192.168.0.3 saratoga 192.168.0.4 stargazer.local.lan stargazer 192.168.0.5 intrepid 192.168.0.6 hood 192.168.0.7 voyager 192.168.0.8 defiant 192.168.0.11 vpn-tgt 192.168.0.10 vpn-src 192.168.0.12 sparc1 192.168.0.14 pegasus 192.168.0.30 marcus 192.168.0.32 marcuslaptop
None of my machines are on a DNS, (I could set on up if I wanted to, I
guess), so I put these in /etc/hosts so that *my* machine can reference
the others by name. If the other machines want to reference my machine,
they would need similar /etc/hosts entries.
Note that your computer can have a real ip address and no hostname (other than localhost). However it could still have a name in a DNS somewhere. Basically, whatever I set the hostname (during setup or in /etc/sysconfig/network) to I add to the 127.0.0.1 line for convenience.
This probably is way confusing, but I'm not sure how to explain it simpler. :)
Yes I really do have that many machines. Sort of. Reliant is my
firewall (on at&T cable), enterprise is my workstation, saratoga is my
i-opener (remember those?), stargazer is my brother's workstation, and
intrepid, hood, voyager and defiant are all virtual machines (VMWare and
User-mode-linux). Pegasus is my attempt at building a PVR (see
www.mythtv.org). Oh and the sparc1 entry is for my 25 Mhz black and
white Sparcstation ELC (runs diskless with an nfs-root and 1-bpp X
display!!). Gotta show off my toys.
Michael
Let's say I have two computers that will be talking to each other at times. I want one to be called 'john.example.net' and the other 'tim.example.net'. Is that the right idea or should they be totally different like 'john.example.net' and tim.home.net'?
Thank you,
john
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