Re: Is there any point to full host names in /etc/hosts ?
- From: Rikishi 42 <skunkworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 23:48:10 +0100
On 2007-11-05, Send <Send@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rikishi 42 wrote:
On 2007-11-03, Send <Send@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rikishi 42 wrote:Yes it is. Read the headers...
This is the situation: a friend and I both use a broadband router with a fewstealing - Using some one elses domain name is unethical. Bottom line
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.
"IT'S NOT YOURS"
Are You trolling Read Youyr own post You said & I Quote
"Mine also exists on the net"
Exactly. So where is the stealing? It's *mine*.
192.168.xxx.xxx addresses are private network addresses and usually notAre you on medication? Or did you just miss the original post?
forwarded upstream by a router. Can you imagine what would happen if
everyone using the same addresses allowed all their network traffic to
reach the www. They would be mass collisions Not to mention that your
private network is no longer "private".
Be forewarned of the security implications
What You have trouble reading ... The original is Quoted DUA
We are not putting the 192.168.x.x addresses in any DNS, nor using trough
the Internet.
I use it, between my machines.
He uses it between his machines.
He's added 2 of my machines into his laptop's /etc/hosts, so he can use it
when he's visiting me, and connects to my LAN. From my home, in my home.
Never is that non-routable range used on the Net, for $DEITY's sake.
My guess is that, upon finding that rikishi42.net exists, there is anWhy bother with all this ? Do it right. Just use the name & IP address
attempt to get the address from the DNS, skipping hosts all together.
But do I presume correctly, or is there more to it?
that has been assigned to you by your ISP. If you are assigned a
dynamic (IP address changes from time to time) which they normally are
then use a FREE service like DynDns and have your own "REAL" domain ...
And just how many IP's do you get from your ISP? I get 2, and that just not
enough. Hence the used of a broadband router.
Since they aren't used on the Net, there is no point in DynDNS.they have several domain you can pick from other than dyndns.org. There
are programs you can run that will update the Dyndns listing
automatically when your ISP changes your IP address.
Yep, and I appreciate all help I've gotten. I'll be examining my friendsDns lookup Work ... Other friends anyware can reach your machine and youYou *are* stoned out of your mind, aren't you. :-)
will NOT be blocked by upstream routers.
Please, please read the original post, and grep it.
You asked for the help
nsswitch config, first.
You had misunderstood the question so much, it amased not only me, but
other's as well. If you want to understand, please read the original post,
and _all_ the answers people posted. But I allready suggested that, and you
didn't bother, did you? :-)
.. Go play with your dolls somewhere OFF UsenetUsenet INTERNET ? Weird.
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