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Re: DNS and aliasing.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Senie)
Thu Oct 31 00:22:25 1996
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 00:20:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
To: Prince Moran of Timarash <mouring@sarah.djmix.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961030155316.5966A-100000@sarah.djmix.com>
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On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Prince Moran of Timarash wrote:
>
>
> 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.
Then I suggest you look up a Windows utility called CRT. I use this from
my laptop. It lets you save multiple session configurations. These can
include host name (or IP address) port number, login scripts, etc.
DNS is just not the right tool...
Dan
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