On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 01:26 +0100, craig-fcp wrote: > > None of them, you put in the DNS name you want to give to that > > machine. > > > its done.. thank you for completing that explaination. > > Would I be pushing it if I asked in what context I use the alias. > > any time you would use a machine hostname on the local network the alias will work. for example. ping alias ping hostname.domain.name ping XX.YY.ZZ.WW (the ip address) will all work equivalently as long as you have those values in /etc/hosts > > > -- > This is an email sent via the webforum on http://fcp.homelinux.org >
