Scott wrote:
Hi Rick,
When you say ip address refering to the hosts file is that the ip
address the router sees or the actual internet address of the server?
Scott
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Stevens" <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: having trouble with hosts file
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 00:23 -0500, Scott wrote:
Hello there,
How should a hosts file look if you want it to be called pilotalk
for the
root log in and on the ZInternet?
To set the host name permanently, edit /etc/sysconfig/network and change
the value for the "HOSTNAME=" parameter to the FQDN (fully qualified
domain name). For example, to make it pilotalk.mydomain.com:
HOSTNAME=pilotalk.mydomain.com
That will take effect on a reboot. To change it immediately, use
"hostname pilotalk.mydomain.com". It won't show up in the prompts until
you log out and back in as the hostname is picked up by your shell when
you log in.
The /etc/hosts file should contain the IP address of the machine, some
whitespace (tabs are normal), then the FQDN of the machine, then
whitespace, then the common (short) name, e.g.
10.20.30.40 pilotalk.mydomain.com pilotalk
As far as the Internet is concerned, that's a function of DNS and you
have to tell your DNS service what the FQDN and IP address is of the
machine. That varies widely depending on who your DNS service is.
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That would be the IP that you have configured on your machines eth0 or
whichever interface you use. Do ifconfig as root to see what IP is set.
br
Jason
