From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 22 6:14:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from alogis.com (firewall.solit-ag.de [212.184.102.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB5937B400 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 06:13:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from alogis.com (kipp@clausthal.int1.b.intern [10.1.1.30]) by alogis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g1MEDil93928; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 15:13:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from holger.kipp@alogis.com) Message-ID: <3C764F19.86F04F43@alogis.com> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 15:00:57 +0100 From: Holger Kipp X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.13 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tomas Palfi Cc: "'freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: ifconfig_ed1_alias0= References: <99A83EE8C34AD311809C009027936117144C00@dell-serv-1.phoenixmedical.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tomas Palfi wrote: > when i asign an alias to ifconfig, can i then change the name in the host > file for another one that will correspond to that new ip address. what I am > trying to do is to give the server an alias name so that it will be known > under two names. You can _add_ an entry with the additional IP-Address, but /etc/hosts is only used for the specific host. If you want other computers to resolv the new name as well, you either have to edit /etc/hosts on every computer, or you have to add an entry to the corresponding named files. (Hint: DNS) See man hosts man named man named.conf man named.reload man ndc man ifconfig Regards, Holger Kipp -- Holger Kipp, Dipl.-Math., Systemadministrator | alogis AG Fon: +49 (0)30 / 43 65 8 - 114 | Berliner Strasse 26 Fax: +49 (0)30 / 43 65 8 - 214 | D-13507 Berlin Tegel email: holger.kipp@alogis.com | http://www.alogis.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message