Your question and example don't seem to match. You are asking to have two different ip addresses with the same host name, but your example is two ip addresses with two different host names (buzz and bumble). Which are you trying to do? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Gogoi" <tgogoi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <linux-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 12:15 PM Subject: Networking question > > Hello, > > Is it possible to configure a host to have 2 different IP addresses each > associated with its own unique fully qualified domain name. > > To be a little more precise, > let's say I have > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifc-eth0 > configured for IP address 192.168.111.4 (say) > > and I also have > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifc-eth0:0 > configured for IP address 192.168.111.5 (say) > > However, /etc/sysconfig/network allows (or seems to allow) only a common > hostname associated with the IP addresses defined in > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifc* > > But what if I want 192.168.111.4 associated with hostname "buzz" and > 192.168.111.5 associated with "bumble" on a host with a single ethernet > card eth0 ??? > > Thanks, > Tony - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html