Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 13:32:53 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org> To: "Patricia J. Nolan" <nolan@twu.edu>, wosch@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: making aliases Message-ID: <19980930133253.D858@panke.de> In-Reply-To: <361097A3.16E740B0@twu.edu>; from Patricia J. Nolan on Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 08:17:39AM %2B0000 References: <361097A3.16E740B0@twu.edu>
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On 1998-09-29 08:17:39 +0000, Patricia J. Nolan wrote: > My name is Pat Nolan. I administer computer-based training, sitting on > FreeBSD OS for Texas Woman's University. I would like to know how to > make aliases for URLs. In other words, I have had a server with > webct.twu.edu and this has been the standard URL...I have found that > sometimes people type in twuct.twu.edu and I was wondering how I can > assign alias URLs to the same IP. I am new to Unix and want to ensure I > do this correctly. I appreciate any help you can provide. A computer can have serveral host aliases. For example, the host freefall has the aliases freefall.freebsd.org and www.freebsd.org. The aliases are defined locally in /etc/hosts and globally by your DNS master - the person, who give you your IP number. Wolfram > > Thank you, > Pat Nolan > systems engineer > pnolan@twu.edu > > > -- Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> http://www.freebsd.org/~w/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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