[1872] in RedHat Linux List
Re: DNS and aliasing.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prince Moran of Timarash)
Wed Oct 30 14:59:04 1996
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 15:54:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Prince Moran of Timarash <mouring@sarah.djmix.com>
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On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Wierdl Mate wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > 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'
>
Umm...Most of the people using the connection would be under windows, and are
non-UNIX fokes. So that is why I was looking for a why to hide it.
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