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Re: redhat-digest Digest V96 #426
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Baverstock)
Wed Oct 30 09:29:24 1996
From: Tim Baverstock <warwick@mmm.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 14:27:27 GMT
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BORG <vladimip@iceonline.com> wrote:
>Prince Moran of Timarash wrote:
>......
>> "telnet ts1 5015" to get to a console. Is it posiable to do an alias
>> in DNS to just have to type: telnet console1 ??
You can't use DNS to tell telnet to contact a port other than the telnet
default, 23, although you could use DNS to alias (CNAME) ts1 for console1 if
you really want.
>I am not sure about aliases in DNS itself (?) but
>why not make an alias in your bash environment
>like:
>
>alias ts='telnet ts1 5015'
This is your only real option. If you're in (t)csh, you'll need something
more like
alias ts telnet ts1 5015
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