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["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Wednesday April 8 2009, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > * 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.
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > 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
>
>
> > ...
> >
> >
> > --
> > 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??

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