On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/6/11 8:18 PM, sync wrote:
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
First, 127.0.0.1 is a special case that always refers to the same host where the connection originates, so you can't really use that from another machine regardless of how you resolve the name.
Gernerally, I can edit the /etc/hosts file to modify it, but the another computer did not recognise it. How could I do it ?
That is up to your DNS server type. If it is BIND/named you'll have a zone file 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.