2 NICs--One Hostname

[Eric Hines]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am So, den 10.07.2005 schrieb Eric Hines um 16:24:
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>>I'm running FC3 on an Intel server that has two NICs on the 
>>motherboard.  I'm trying to give the two NICs separate hostnames and 
>>separate DNS IPs and DNS search paths (one NIC (eth0) is intended to 
>>face the Net; the other (eth1) will run a LAN that is not intended to 
>>have any contact with the Net.  Eth1 has a static IP address, and eth0 
>>gets its automatically.)  However, system-config-network will only allow 
>>me to assign one hostname to both NICs, presumably because 
>>system-config-network writes these data to the same /etc/resolv.conf.
>>
>>Does anyone have any way to work around this?
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>A host has 1 hostname. What is set as HOSTNAME= in
>/etc/sysconfig/network reflect in /etc/hosts. For the second NIC / IP
>set an additional line in /etc/hosts so that you can reach the address
>by name. If you run a DNS server then enter the additional name and IP
>in it's forward and reverse zone files.
>
>Alexander
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Aha!  It's that last part that I'd missed in the Samba instructions.
Dank'.

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