From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 22 6:26:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp011.mail.yahoo.com (smtp011.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B94837B405 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 06:26:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from sgeine (AUTH poptime) at adsl-63-198-133-39.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net (HELO edinburgh) (63.198.133.39) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Feb 2002 14:26:03 -0000 Reply-To: From: "Jesse Geddis" To: "Tomas Palfi" , Subject: RE: ifconfig_ed1_alias0= Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 06:26:03 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <99A83EE8C34AD311809C009027936117144C00@dell-serv-1.phoenixmedical.co.uk> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 have you considered doing it via bind? if you do it only on the machine the host names will only be known locally or on every machine you manually write an entry in their hosts file. this is allot more work and not as solid as just setting up a CNAME in bind. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Tomas Palfi Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 5:52 AM To: 'freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG' Subject: ifconfig_ed1_alias0= all, 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. thank you -- end Tomas Palfi ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message