my hosts file

[Scott]

Hi Aaron,

Okay I have the hosts set up now.  Like I said they are going to be running 
on the same machine.  Also just out of curiosity say you have a certain port 
like my Cms(Content Management System) runs on 8080 does this need to be 
present in the hosts file or am I just telling the computer okay you will 
act as these machines.  My educated guess is that I am just telling the 
machine okay you will be these servers but I just want to make sure I know 
what I am doing here.  This is the first time I have mucked with the hosts 
file.
Once more just to make sure I am following your advice I will send out the 
hosts file.  I apologize if I am very careful but I worked on Windows 
machines for almost 20 years and now just really getting my feet wet so to 
speak with Linux.  I do have some basic knowledge of Linux and do read if I 
need to or if I can understand it.


Scott
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron Konstam" <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: my hosts file


> On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 14:46 -0500, Scott wrote:
>> i a"aron,
>>
>> What I am wanting to do here and I hope I have accomplished this here
>> is
>> that Pilotalk has the web server, email and it will have bugzill and
>> also
>> svn capability on it.  So what I want is the machine to be called
>> pilotalk.com and the mail server to be mail.pilotalk.com.  With the
>> router
>> address of 192.168.1.102 is this going to foul things up or is it
>> better to
>> call it 127.0.0.1?  Also in where it says localhost.localdomain can
>> that
>> actually be changed to pilotalk.com in the first line of the hosts
>> file?
>> Againhere is the current hosts file.
>>
> Despite support for your hosts file, to me it is wrong.
> The :
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> line is required and you should not muck with it.
> Putting the other names and ip addresses in your host files is the way
> to go. You can also put a HOSTNAME in the /etc/sysconfig/network
> file. However, what you machine will be called when accessed from
> another machine is the job of the DNS records on the DNS server you are
> using.
>
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