Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1885 mails)

[Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* 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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