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madtinkerer
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Joined: 14 Nov 2002
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Location: London Ontario Canada
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 Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 4:27 am Post subject: /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname - basic question |
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I can't quite seem to wrap my head around the setup of these two files for my home computer which has a PPPoE adsl network connection. Every example I've found seems to be for static IP or standard LAN DHCP setups, so I was wondering if someone could give me a template to setup these files for my type of network connection. Also, since I have a dyndns account, do I put my dyndns domain name somewhere in these files?
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Anime_Fan
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Joined: 01 Jul 2003
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Location: Linköping, Sweden
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| Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 8:57 am Post subject: |
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Yes, I'd set my /etc/hostname to the dyndns domain name...
Alsa, I'd set my /etc/hosts to something along the lines of:
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127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 $dyndns
127.0.0.1 goatse.cx #Get rid of those slashdot trolls...
# IPV6 versions of localhost and co
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
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Having your dyndns name in /etc/hosts enables you to utilize the same URLs as you would give others... Really nice with loopback connections for it. |
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jtp755
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Location: USA
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| i am also kind of confused on this topic. i have an account at www.no-ip.com which lets you have a dynamic IP from your ISP stay static(well it updates it as neccasery) but i dont know what i need to put in the hostname or the domainname. can i use w/e i want or what. I am going to be running a FTP and probably eventually hosting a web site. |
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