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Re: [opensuse] More Networking Configuration: Local Aliases
  • From: Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 23:54:16 -0400
  • Message-id: <20090409035416.GA7631@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
* Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx> [04-08-09 20:51]:

Having switched my two systems from their fake names to the synthetic
but real DNS names assigned by the ISP based on their (static) IP
address, I find I am no longer able to access these hosts by their local
aliases.

I have these lines in /etc/hosts on "twain":

# Fayette208 LAN
208.201.233.232 twain
208.201.233.233 smiley


On "smiley", I have these:

# Fayette208 LAN
208.201.233.233 208-201-233-233.dsl.static.sonic.net 208-201-233-233 smiley
208.201.233.232 208-202-233-232.dsl.static.sonic.net 208-202-233-232 twain


However, the names "smiley" and "twain" do not work on either system
to refer to themselves or each other.

What's the configuration I need to be able to use the short aliases on
these two hosts?

I believe you have not filled in the fields correctly.

numeric.addr alpha.addr alias

in the first you have numeric.addr alias
and the second numberic.addr alpha.addr alias xxxxxx


try

twain:
# Fayette208 LAN
208.201.233.232 208-202-233-232.dsl.static.sonic.net twain
208.201.233.233 208-201-233-233.dsl.static.sonic.net smiley

smiley:
# Fayette208 LAN
208.201.233.233 208-201-233-233.dsl.static.sonic.net smiley
208.201.233.232 208-202-233-232.dsl.static.sonic.net twain


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