[101904] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Home networking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anthony E. Greene)
Mon Nov 30 11:20:32 1998
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 17:08:38 +0100
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From: "Anthony E. Greene" <agreene@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <01BE1C35.201760C0.brichardson@lineone.net>
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At 07:42 1998-11-30 -0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>in /etc/hosts
>----------------------
>127.0.0.1 alpha.bruce.net alpha.bruce.net
>----------------------
>
>Now, I know this is not exactly right (the nickname in hosts should just be
>alpha?) but is any software going to puke because it can't find a
>'localhost'?
I can't think of anything specific that will break, but I remember having
problems when localhost was not defined. It really is best to just set it
up in the "standard" manner (like you did below).
> Should I just bite the bullet, assign myself a class A
>address and put in IP masquerading? If I do that, should hosts read as
>follows?
>
>-----------------------
>127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
><classA_IP> alpha.bruce.net alpha
>-----------------------
You can setup your hosts file like that and not use IP masquerading. It
will work fine. When you dial in, the server-assigned IP will be used for
all non-local packets anyway. the above setup should do the trick.
After you get it working, you will need to edit /etc/sysconfig/network to
make sure the changes are re-implemented at boot time.
Tony
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