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Re: DNS and aliasing.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wierdl Mate)
Wed Oct 30 13:28:47 1996

To: Michael Ghens <michael@spconnect.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 30 Oct 1996 09:17:39 PST."
             <Pine.LNX.3.95.961030091508.7027B-100000@merlin.spconnect.com> 
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 13:11:43 -0600
From: Wierdl Mate <matyi@wierdlmpc.msci.memphis.edu>
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> > 
> > 
> > This is not a direct Linux/Redhat questions persay...but we have an Annex 
> > term server that has a few serial connects to consoles (DG/UX AViiONs..Fun,
> > but must have a console to shutdown. =).  Now currently we are typing:
> > 
> > "telnet ts1 5015"   to get to a console.  Is it posiable to do an alias
> > in DNS to just have to type: telnet  console1  ??
> 
> Alias that was sugguested is a better idea. You can put a alias in the dns
> table, however, you are telneting to port 5015. Even if you changed the
> DNS information, you would still have to put int the 5015

How about this in .bashrc:
alias telnetc1='telnet ts1 5015'

Mate

M\'at\'e Wierdl
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Memphis,
E-mail: matyi@moni.msci.memphis.edu


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