On Thursday April 9 2009, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Randall R Schulz
[04-09-09 13:40]: ...
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.
I actually think this won't work, and the reason I think that is that I'm virtually certain that my /etc/hosts is _not_ being consulted at all. I added a line for the address I had before moving across town (and I landed on a part of the network that forced my ISP to give me new IP addresses): 64.142.14.4 64-142-14-4.dsl.static.sonic.net twain-of-yore And still this: % host twain-of-yore Host twain-of-yore not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org