* Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> [04-09-09 13:40]:
On Thursday April 9 2009, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
Randall R Schulz pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
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Try changing to:
208.201.233.232 twain.sonic.net twain 208.201.233.233 smiley.sonic.net smiley
Sonic.net net knows not of twain and smiley. They're my fictitious names for these two hosts.
I realize that as it would only be used for internal purposes not external even though they have public addresses.
Regardless, it doesn't work.
Does anyone out there have working aliases for hosts on their LANs? If so, is there a trick? Some sort of magic incantation? Maybe a blood sacrifice of some sort I must make? (My cat draws blood from time to time, if that would count.)
Then why don't you use the local addresses, 192.168.x.x. That is how I use aliases in my /etc/hosts for computers on my lan. I also have aliases for computers outside my net that I support, but they have *semi* permanent ip nos requiring attention occasionally. # 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 192.168.1.2 carol.wahoo.no-ip.org carol 192.168.1.4 paka.wahoo.no-ip.org paka 127.0.0.1 localhost wahoo 24.13.166.147 fred.nettles fred 75.126.190.156 tyler.grover tyler 76.252.33.80 kathy.turner kathy 98.213.149.255 marge.harrison marge *and* the second field in /etc/hosts, does not need to be anything particularly special as you can see above, they all work as long and the numeric address is valid. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org