Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Wednesday April 8 2009, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
- Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> [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.
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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
I got the impression multiple aliases were supported.
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
I still get this (from twain, with the aforementioned entries in /etc/hosts):
% host twain Host twain not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
% host smiley Host smiley not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
It's almost as if /etc/hosts isn't being consulted at all. Along those lines, resolv.conf includes these (non-comment) lines:
search sonic.net nameserver 208.201.224.11 nameserver 208.201.224.33
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-- Patrick Shanahan
Randall Schulz
Randall, From you resolv.conf, I take it you are on 208.201.233.0/24, you don't have a caching only dns setup so you are looking to 208.201.224.11 & 13 for name resolution?? I can't tell you why /etc/hosts isn't getting searched, but Patrick is right, the /etc/hosts entries should look something like: # Syntax: # # IP-Address Full-Qualified-Hostname Short-Hostname # 127.0.0.1 localhost # special IPv6 addresses ::1 localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback fe00::0 ipv6-localnet ff00::0 ipv6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ipv6-allnodes ff02::2 ipv6-allrouters ff02::3 ipv6-allhosts 127.0.0.2 ecstasy.3111skyline.com ecstasy 192.168.6.15 ecstasy.3111skyline.com ecstasy It also makes sense that from resolv.conf nameserver 208.201.224.11 & 13 wouldn't be of much help with internal addresses on 208.201.233.0/24 if I understand what your setup looks like?? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org