A hostname is a label that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network and that is used to identify the device in various forms of electronic communication such as the World Wide Web, e-mail or Usenet. Hostnames may be simple names consisting of a single word or phrase, or they may have ...
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Disable server access by hostname
I'm using Apache HTTPD Server under Debian Squeeze.
How can I prevent users to access my server by the server hostname(dummy.xxx.com) or ip address(xx.xx.xx.xx)?!
For example:
I do not want them to ...
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Tomcat 5.5 IP redirect to Hostname
How to setup Tomcat if my user entered "http://192.168.0.1:8080/axis2", it will redirect to http://servername.com:8080/axis2? I want the url/hostname appeared on user's web browser instead of ip ...
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Cannot ping Ubuntu server by hostname
I know this is already asked but I can't find a clear answer. I put a new Ubuntu server in my LAN and I can't ping it but the hostname. I don't want to edit all my LAN windows hosts's file (+40 pcs) ...
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Why won't RabbitMQ respect my hostname on EC2/Ubuntu Lucid?
I've got a fresh installation of rabbitmq-server on a Lucid EC2 instance. The hostname is set correctly, but rabbitmq won't pick up the hostname, and insists on calling itself localhost. Any idea how ...
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Can a hostname be added to syslog-ng?
How can syslog-ng be configured to send both the hostname and the IP address. Currently, logs are sent with the IP address of the device/machine, but we want to add the hostname so I could keep my ip ...
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Unix - how to get hostname along with domain name
In unix (solaris) is there any command where i can get hostname & domain name together??
ex. hostname -> servername domainname -> us.xyz.com
i need it output as : servername.us.xyz.com
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Cannot login SQL Server after changing machine name
After installing and setting up new machines in a domain, we decided to rename one of them which had a SQL Server instance installed. So I changed the hostname, everything went fine regarding the ...
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DNS with centos
I have a centos box from linode and I have set the /etc/hosts /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/resolv.conf to only one domain.
Is it okay to host multiple domains on the same machine, while only one ...
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Is it possible to change a Windows hostname (NetBIOS name) using a script?
How can I change the hostname of a Windows server using a script?
Doing this on a Linux server is very straightforward (change a couple file entries, and run the hostname command), but I don't know ...
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Virtual server (VM) running Ubuntu re-configures itself?
I'm helping to administer a VM running Ubuntu with Media Temple.
The hostname was changed, and sendmail was removed and replaced with exim4.
To change the hostname 'sudo hostname newhostname' was ...
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Can I force apache's mod_proxy to connect to the remote server by hostname, rather than IP?
I'm setting up Apache2 as a reverse proxy for a remote site. Let's assume the remote site is http://app.remotesite.com. Here is a snippet from my virtual host config:
ProxyPass /pxy/ ...
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Does the server hostname need to match the domain name of the email address you are sending from? Does the hostname need to be verifiable with DNS?
I am trying to diagnose why email won't send from a new RHEL v5.8 server. Sendmail is up and running, but everything is stuck in the queue (confirmed with mailq) with connection timed out errors.
If ...
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ssh can't connect using hostname
I'm setting up some server but I stubbled into an issue with one server.
I setup a local dns server, and when I try to connect to this server with ssh alpha@alpha.stvns.com I will get : Permission ...
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Is zenoss capable of holding a hostname
Hey i am trying to know with zenoss is capable of holding a hostname (DNS). For example i want to my service to search by hostname and not by ip and the problem is when the IP changes, i am him to ...
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Configuring /etc/host file in Ubuntu Server
I am configuring an Ubuntu server on Amazon EC2. The tutorial I am following says /etc/host to be configured like this.
127.0.0.1 localhost.domain.com localhost
X.X.X.X ...
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linux macvlan - stop from broadcasting hostname
I am trying to simulate two different computers on one box, using the macvlan module (which is awesome, by the way) but I have one small problem; When I create the macvlan Ubuntu 11.10 very helpfully ...
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CentOS 6.0 Server hostname changes at reboot
Every time I boot, CentOS 6.0 Server hostname disappears. I have to re-issue hostname command to reset it.
Please help!
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Are separate dns records necessary for web and mail on a single server?
When setting up a web/mail server on a single server or VPS with one IP address almost every guide online follows the same structure for DNS:
example.com. IN A 192.0.2.0
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switching hostname when I resolve IP address reversely via “nslookup” command
There's a network issue in my office so I ran Look@LAN application to check network condition of some windows PCs.
All of sudden, I found out a resolution of IP address of some PCs are switching ...
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No names resolve in new BIND installation - wondering if issue is that BIND cannot resolve the NS
When I configure a new domain using Webmin/BIND, I am asked for a Master Server. Webmin fills this value automatically with the hostname of my box. However, this hostname is made up and there is no ...
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OSX Lion ignores local (mDNS) names when DNS search domains have a match
On the LAN, local names are resolved with mDNS.
Outside the LAN, the server can be reached with the same name iff the domain is in the DNS search domains list.
With Snow Leopard, having "local" and ...
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How can I set alias names for hostname on Redhat?
I'm aware that modifying /etc/sysconfig/network can set a permanent hostname for my server. But I also want to set some alias for it, and make several clients able to resolve them, how can I achieve ...
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How to get the fully qualified name (FQN) on Unix in a bash script?
I have tested hostname on several servers (RedHat, Ubuntu), and hostname -f has proven unreliable, returning sometime the short name only (as described in this question).
I can see the fqn in the ...
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Eliminating duplicate hostnames when deploying a Windows 2008 R2 VM from a template in ESXi 4.1
When deploying a Windows 2008 R2 VM in ESXi 4.1, why does the hostname always end up the same as the original VM that was converted into the template in the first place?
How can this be rectified so ...
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Connecting hosts in same network by their fqdn
Lets say I have 2 servers. They are on the same network, same subnet and the same domain. Everything is same.
server1.something.internal -> 10.0.0.1
server2.something.internal -> 10.0.0.2
So ...
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What does 127.0.1.1 represent in /etc/hosts?
This may be a bit of a noobish question, but I was taking a look at /etc/hosts on my new Xubuntu install and saw this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 myhostname
On most 'nixes I've used, the second ...
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How to change URL of local VM
Sorry for the noob question but I can't seem to find proper literature on the subject:
Currently I'm forced to type my IP address to get to my CentOS VM local environment:
192.168.56.101
How can I ...
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Configure Avahi nss-mdns not to use local suffix with hostnames because of issue in mounting Samba share
How to configure Avahi & nss-mdns to resolve names in my small home network in the same manner as Windows does with NetBIOS or more recently LLMNR.
For Linux, there are two options:
Winbind aka ...
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setting server hostname
I'm using ubuntu 10.04 on my server and I'm looking to set the hostname.
Looking around it seems I have to set this in the /etc/hostname file, but on my system I do not have one.
Typing hostname ...
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SSH/Git: Specify paths with hostname instead of IP
Alright, quick question.
When SSHing to a server using the IP, I can also specify a path to use, such as:
git clone ssh://git@127.0.0.1:/home/git/project.git SomeProject
However, when using a ...
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Running teamcity in LAN
I am trying to set up a teamcity server in my local network so that it can also be accessed from outside.
the server runs on port 8111 and can be accessed fine from inside the lan.
In my router ...
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Setting new hostname on CentOS, it changes back after restart
On CentOS (5.x) I have a VPS that has hostname set to "olddomain.com", at least this is the domain I am getting when typing "hostname" command.
I want to change it to 'localhost.localdomain' because ...
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Unable to resolve host name on certain ISP
Two people on the same office. One uses WIFI on a broadband network and the other one uses Tele2 3G (Sweden), both from a Macbook Pro. When they try to open www.good-morning.se on their browser, the ...
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Effects of mis-configured hosts file?
SSH and sudo were starting very slowly because /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts did not match. After adding a line for the hostname in the hosts file, the initial 2-4 second delay no longer occurs.
At ...
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Resolving samba server hostnames
I have a samba server and I want to access it by name from my windows machine.
Currently if I can use the ip address e.g. \\192.168.0.104 (although it does not appear automatically in network) to ...
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Plesk don't run the web interface because it redirects to 127.0.0.1
I'm having a very strange problem with plesk 10.4.4 in a Ubuntu server. It's when i point in the browser the hostname with https: and port 8443 it redirects me auto to https://127.0.0.1/relay. Why ...
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Ubuntu 10.04 server change ip
I have ubuntu 10.04 server configured to ip address x.x.x.200 and also have windows server 2003 with ip address x.x.x.100 (already setup as www.some-domain.com)
Currently i trying to shutdown windows ...
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How does hostname relate to IP address on a server with multiple public IPs?
My hosting provider set up an Ubuntu-based virtual private server for me with three public IPs. I want to assign hostnames to those IPs as follows (I'm be using Dyn as my DNS):
example.com -> IP_1
...
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Ubuntu - get hostname -f to return fake “FQDN” without DNS
On my private local network, I need an Ubuntu host to convince itself (well, more specifically the Erlang "long name" tool) that it has a FQDN. It doesn't much matter what it is. But supposing my real ...
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nginx server_name based on $hostname
Based on the nginx wiki the $hostname variable is "Set to the machine's hostname as returned by gethostname ". I tried that and although gethostname doesn't work my debian box it still returns the ...
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iis vbscript remove all site bindings and replace with list of new bindings
I have a single host with 500+ bindings associated to it, and I would like to first purge this host of all its bindings and replace them from a list of bindings in a file. The format of the fill will ...
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ADODB Connection - Webserver doesn't resolve the hostname of the mssql server
I have a mssql connection resource file as belows:
<%
Set Conn01 = Server.CreateObject ("ADODB.Connection")
Conn01.Open "PROVIDER=SQLOLEDB; Data ...
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Setting FQDN hostname and dot
I was wondering if I am editing a file such as /etc/hosts or /etc/sysconfig/network should I put a . at the end of the name. such as test.example.com.
Is there a difference? Would anything break ...
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Setting the hostname: FQDN or short name?
I've noticed that the "preferred" method of setting the system hostname is fundamentally different between Red Hat/CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu systems.
CentOS documentation and the RHEL deployment guide ...
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Does not having FQDN in /etc/hosts cause any problems?
Just been looking through some servers and seen that the external ip is set up with the full and short names the wrong way round, e.g.:
a.b.c.d myserver myserver.mycompany.org
What sort of problems ...
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Trouble with resolving hostnames on CentOS using Bind
I'm taking a course on server administration at school and I have managed to set up virtual hosting in apache and a dns server on a virtual machine. However, I have now set up an old pc to run CentOS ...
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site name vs host name on iis 7 - adding a new site
I am adding a new site in the IIS7. It asked me to enter site name and host name. I didn't get the difference. Could you please explain about it.
thanks !
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Links inside intranet: use fully qualified name, or just hostname?
When working in an intranet, it's often necessary to set up links to other computers (HTTP hyperlinks or shortcuts, hostname in various server config files, SSH shortcuts etc.).
In all these cases, ...
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Some questions regarding Hostname
I just bought a new VPS hosting plan and i have a few questions.
Hope someone here can clear the doubts for me.
1) Is it necessary to have a real domain for a vps hostname? I suppose i can just ...
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host resolution extremely slow using wget on local dev machine. fast using browser
On my local Ubuntu 10.04 dev machine, if I do a wget for a web address such as "wget http://www.google.com", it gets stuck on "Resolving www.google.com" for up to 30 seconds before the response is ...
