Hi Adam, Sorry for any confusion. Its: 1 host with 2 hostnames. Each hostname has its own ipaddress. Tony On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Adam Lang wrote: > 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 > Tony Gogoi - : 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