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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!lade.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.be.innet.net!bofh.dot!INbe.net!news.nl.innet.net!INnl.net!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: multiple names Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 18:42:34 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 22 Message-ID: <31B6378A.2F7D@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4p4clr$5lo@stratus.skypoint.net> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (Win16; I) Patrick Sonnek wrote: > > How would I configure me DNS (or hosts file) to point several different > names all to the same location. > > I am running named. My IP address is 206.9.159.17 the names are > parker.artbbs.com artbbs.com www.artbbs.com ftp.artbbs.com All of > these need to resolve to the same IP address. and I'm a little confused > on how to do this. > Put the names all on one line of /etc/hosts, after the IP address and separated by spaces. For example, internally I know my main box as odin. Thus, I have a line in /etc/hosts: 206.161.179.129 www.play-hookey.com odin odin.play-hookey.com Any of the three names works fine internally, although only the first one is on any DNS. Hope this helps! Ken