On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110407/54a6e9bb/attachment-0005.html>