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crimson
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Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 8:44 am Post subject: /etc/hosts and dynamic ip problems.

my ip address changes every so often, although I'm on a cable connection. How do I manage my /etc/hosts file to deal with this? I don't want to manually edit that file every time I boot into linux.

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 3:28 pm Post subject:

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In your /etc/hosts file do like this:

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127.0.0.1 localhost your_hostname

That's it... DON'T ADD another line for your "outside" ip.
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 5:21 pm Post subject:

ok. thanks.

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