Hosts

eeijlar · July 15, 2008, 2:05pm

Hi,

If I put the following in my hosts file in /etc/hosts

192.168.0.80 Website Hosting - Mysite.com

and then type that into my browser, will it know that this site is hosted locally, and not try and go to the internet for the address. I have Apache running and configured on my machine.

buckesfeld · July 15, 2008, 2:58pm

eeijlar,

syntax is

192.168.0.80 www.mysite.com

but else yes, that’ll do the trick.

Uwe

user · July 15, 2008, 3:57pm

Hi,
I am also having somewhat similar problem.I am trying to change the host name of a Suse 10.1 linux machine.
I have modified /etc/hosts as follows :

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
##&lt; IP ADDRESS&gt; &lt;OLD HOSTNAME&gt;
&lt;IP ADDRESS&gt; &lt;NEW HOSTNAME&gt;


/etc/nsswitch.conf is modified as follows :
#hosts: db files nisplus nis dns
##hosts: files nisplus dns
hosts: files

echo example.com > /etc/hostname
/bin/hostname -F /etc/hostname

I get this error message

‘hostname: can’t open `/etc/hostname’

After executing these steps, my machine is not taking the new
hostname.
If I execute
#hostname


I get hostname as (none)

what is that which I am missing here.
Thanks in Advance!

user · July 15, 2008, 4:29pm

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Yikes… this isn’t the right place to set that value. Yast: Network
Devices: Network Card: Traditional (or whatever). In here there is some
option for setting your DNS server as well as your host name. Set it
here and then Finish in Yast and it will be set from then on (may need
to reboot to get all your TTYs updated).

Good luck.

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user · July 15, 2008, 5:05pm

Dear ab@novel.com

We did set through Yast; Network Services; for Hostname and DNS server and everytime we did this we had to restart the server for the settings to take effect. However, the hostname is alwaya set to <none> on the restart.

And even when we try to force IT TO PICK THE RIGHT HOSTNAME, hostname services by >>hostname -F /etc/hostname; an error occurs as explained in my earlier e-mail.

In addition, hostname aliase changes everytime we run Hostname and DNS services through YAST. We seem to be going round in cycles! Please assist.

Regards;
SARA

user · July 15, 2008, 5:25pm

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Do you have the checkbox checked to set hostname via DHCP? This
checkbox is right below the host field in Yast as I recall.

Good luck.

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| Dear ab@novel.com
|
| We did set through Yast; Network Services; for Hostname and DNS server
| and everytime we did this we had to restart the server for the settings
| to take effect. However, the hostname is alwaya set to <none> on the
| restart.
|
| And even when we try to force IT TO PICK THE RIGHT HOSTNAME, hostname
| services by >>hostname -F /etc/hostname; an error occurs as explained
| in my earlier e-mail.
|
| In addition, hostname aliase changes everytime we run Hostname and DNS
| services through YAST. We seem to be going round in cycles! Please
| assist.
|
| Regards;
| SARA
|
|
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user · July 15, 2008, 5:36pm

The check box is not selected and is greyed out (checkbox checked to set hostname via DHCP).

Currently we are logged-in and the moment we log out, the settings will be lost or the hostname becomes <none>. This just weird, we had to use pppd call isp command to connect and then to allow other services run like squid, fetchmail, postfix. However, the hostname when call does not have the dnsdomainname; i.e. when i run the command : hostname, I get; sararail instead of sararail.org which is my full hostname.

Your assistance is called for!

Regards;
SARA