Lamar Owen wrote:
On Friday, April 06, 2012 09:18:27 AM Jonathan Vomacka wrote:
No matter what I do when I connect to the application it read "example.example.org" which is the hostname of the machine rather then the hostname I want it to read on a particular IP. Is this possible to change?
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A host can only have one name (this is true for basically any IP host, whether it's a Linux system, a BSD system, a Windows system, or a Cisco router. Especially on a router with a lot of interfaces (broadband aggregation routers, for instance, can have thousands of interfaces with each one having a unique IP) you don't want the name of the IP associated with the interface to override the hostname. And the hostname does not have to match what DNS says about the FQDN that belongs to any interface on the system (I have a few of those, too).
Now, I can't quote RFC 'chapter and verse' on this, but I have never seen a system where you could do what you're describing. (that doesn't mean they don't exist, just that I've not seen one in my limited experience of AT&T Unix SVR2, Xenix V7 and SIII, Apollo DomainOS, and Solaris).
A thought just hit me as I browsed this: Jonathon, do you want to do this to allow for load balancing?
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