On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Like this ?
Add the following line in localdomain zone file :
"
server IN A 127.0.0.1
aaa IN CNAME server "
then reload the named service .
But when I run this command "ping aaa" , it has no result .
And it print "Unkown host aaa" message.
By the way , aaa is not the domain name, it maybe the hostname alias.
On 4/6/11 8:18 PM, sync wrote:First, 127.0.0.1 is a special case that always refers to the same host where the
> Hi ,all:
>
>
> There has a problem which confused me for a long time . The problem is the
> following:
>
> Would I can set the hostname alias in DNS server?
>
> That's to say, for example , if my hostname is called server, that it's ip
> address is 127.0.0.1
> and I want to alias another name called aaa
connection originates, so you can't really use that from another machine
regardless of how you resolve the name.
That is up to your DNS server type. If it is BIND/named you'll have a zone file
> Gernerally, I can edit the /etc/hosts file to modify it, but the another
> computer did not recognise it.
> How could I do it ?
for each domain it is serving with an 'A' record entry for a name and IP, and
you would add CNAME entries for aliases or additional names.
Like this ?
Add the following line in localdomain zone file :
"
server IN A 127.0.0.1
aaa IN CNAME server "
then reload the named service .
But when I run this command "ping aaa" , it has no result .
And it print "Unkown host aaa" message.
By the way , aaa is not the domain name, it maybe the hostname alias.
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