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From: igor@students.uiuc.edu (Igor Vladim Roshchin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: multiple names
Date: 5 Jun 1996 23:30:13 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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Ken Bigelow (kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com) wrote:
: 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


I don't think this is what was asked,
This allows to resolve them locally.
To have all the hostnames to be resolved from outside, one 
needs to change DNS entry in the default name-server
(ask your provider, if you are not running it yourself)

IgoR
aka StR@komkon.org
IgoR@uiuc.edu