Re: Is there any point to full host names in /etc/hosts ?
- From: Unruh <unruh-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 06:33:38 GMT
Rikishi 42 <skunkworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
This is the situation: a friend and I both use a broadband router with a few
machines behind them, at our respective homes. We each picked a name for our
'domain'. His is fictional. Mine also exists on the net, but with only the
www and ftp of rikishi42.net defined in the DNS, not my home machines.
He's added 2 of my PC's in the /etc/hosts of his laptop, for use when he
visits and connects it to my LAN.
This would be a sample from that file:
# Home net
192.168.108.101 desktop.myDomain desktop
192.168.108.124 laptop.myDomain laptop
192.168.108.101 server.myDomain server
#Rikishi's net
192.168.8.142 gramps.rikishi42.net gramps
192.168.8.181 pigmy.rikishi42.net pigmy
We've allways used this, works just fine.
When connectiong to my machines, he's allways used the short (host only)
name. Last time, he accidentally tried with the full name. It failed.
My guess is that, upon finding that rikishi42.net exists, there is an
attempt to get the address from the DNS, skipping hosts all together.
It depends on whether he told his system to look for the address in hosts
or in dns first.
/etc/hosts.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf
But do I presume correctly, or is there more to it?
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