> > Since I only have the one Linux box and I want it to do a number of tasks,
> > email DNS, that sort of thing, how do I set up the machine wtih multiple
> > names?
> If you only have one box, don't worry about DNS. Continue to use your
> provider's nameserver for your dialup link, and configure /etc/hosts to
> reflect the various names of your box. For example:
> 192.168.1.100 mymachine www loghost mailhost
> Then http://www.mydomain.org will go to your box.
Not if the query comes from elsewhere on the net, as the host won;t be
found under any of these names unless someone somewhere is providing DNS
for these names.
Nils
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