On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 10:29 -0500, Scott Berry wrote: > I just wrote in the /etc/hosts this line is this the correct way to do > this? > 127.0.0.1 pilotalk.com www.pilotalk.com As Frank said, you need to keep the localhost information, and you may not need the www one. That depends on whether your webserver works both ways (with and without the www prefix). If your machine was on the local address of 192.168.1.1, I would have done it this way: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.1 pilotalk.com www.pilotalk.com If you were also serving out FTP, which the thread initially indicated by then said no, I would be tempted to add ftp.pilotalk.com onto the end of that line too. Regardless of whether you intended to serve a server on an address like that, people often expect it. Of course, that'd need to be in DNS too. Don't bother doing something like that with SSH, though. i.e. The point being that some people expect to find some services using the popular sub-domain names (websites with www ones, file servers with ftp ones, and so on). -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
