Randall R Schulz pecked at the keyboard and 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
Try changing to: 208.201.233.232 twain.sonic.net twain 208.201.233.233 smiley.sonic.net smiley and you will get better results (I think, but then again my brain is not what it use to be)
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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Randall Schulz
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