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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
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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
> 
> 
> 

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Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> http://www.freebsd.org/~w/

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