David C. Rankin wrote: > Listmates, > > How do you tell ssh to log in as machine x.y.z? With bind running > a single machine may be known as: > > ftp.domain.com > mail.domain.com > machinename.domain.com > www.domain.com > > When using ssh outbound from that box, how do you tell it to ssh > as machinename.domain.com and not mail.domain.com? > > Thanks. > As far as I know, you can't. The computers talk using IP addresses and not host names. When you request a computer, by using a host name, your computer contacts the DNS server to find out what the IP address is and then uses that address to access the remote computer. Going in reverse, you can use host to find a host name for an IP address, but there's nothing to indicate what name you want to be seen as.
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