-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yes, but /etc/hosts is meant to be used for small private networks, so that wouldn't work in this case. Without seeing a traceroute to a particular machine on Janina's rednote.net domain that illustrates your example, I'm not sure what the exact answer to your question is. However, if I do understand what you're asking for, then all your friend should need to do is to put an A record into his DNS zones using the same IP address in each A record. Greg On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 07:02:05PM -0600, Stephen Clower wrote: > Nick, > > Not sure how Redhat's set up, but in Slackware there's a file called /etc/hosts which allows you to assign aliases to various IP addresses. > - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCEAr67s9z/XlyUyARAm2JAKCI1AL2yZ1T86oHKJ3mwt11Zwe5twCgmZ9n Zvs8ODaa+TeZsqIZcv9dcmU= =RBum -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----