From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 4 17:14:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6138137B718 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 17:14:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from mark9 (hutch-182.hutchtel.net [206.10.67.82]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id TAA09966; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 19:14:22 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <005001c0a5da$c96a14c0$6100000a@vladsempire.net> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "G. Jason Middleton" , References: Subject: Re: hostname aliasing Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 19:13:55 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "G. Jason Middleton" To: Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 4:32 PM Subject: hostname aliasing > my bsd bosx has a hostname from comcast but i am about to host a domain > and run dns....so what i want to know is how to enter an alias in the > hosts file so that my computer will have 2 names instead of the silly old > comcast one. everyone understand? did i ask the question with enough > detail? I just wanna know the syntax for "hostname aliasing" not sure if > that is what it is called. > > > in the meantime i will be looking though Greg's book and the handbook. > > Regards > > > G. Jason Middleton > > If you are going to run the authoritive DNS for your domain, then it's no problem to refer to the same machine by mulitple names. It's called a CNAME, and it allows you to give multiple names to the same machine. Josh > ______________________________________________________________________ _________ > > > > > > > Announcement: > > The revolution will not be televised. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message