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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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iOS: finding out which web hosts/URLs does an application access [closed]
I'd like to know what host/hosts does an iOS app access when it's running. For example, if it was a translation app, I'd like to be given a list like "translate.google.com, ...
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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 ...
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the server's certificate did not match its hostname multiple domains on same server
I have 3 websites host on a single server, and only one of those website is using SSL. I bought, configured and installed a GoDaddy certificate and it is working fine on all browsers (Chrome, FF, ...
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Cannot ping linux (RedHat) machine by hostname
For some reason, a linux (RedHat) machine that I have is not ping-able by hostname! It is ping-able by IP address though. I have the same network configurations as another linux (RedHat) machine ...
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Lighttpd proxy module - use with hostname
I have to proxy a site which is hosted on an external webspace through my lighty on example.org.
My config so far:
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/webmail" {
proxy.server = ("/webmail/" => (
# ...
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Hostname Problem On WHM / cPanel Installation
My CentOS 5.6 server's hostname was "centos" . And then i change it to my domain :
hostname domain.com
And i started to installing WHM / cPanel as explained in here : ...
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rDNS multiple IPs same interface
I have three different IPs on the same interface:
eth0 192.168.1.103
eth0:0 192.168.1.104
eth0:1 192.168.1.105
and I have the following in /etc/hosts:
192.168.1.103 host.example.com ...
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How to change computer name in Win7 in a workgroup to make it like in a domain [closed]
My home computer is currently in my home's workgroup, and I don't have any domain controller in my home network. I would like to have my computer's hostname look like mycomputer.mydomain.com, but ...
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Linux command line utility to resolve host names wrt. /etc/hosts
There are several command line utilities to resolve host names (host, dig, nslookup), however they all use nameservers exclusively, while applications in general look in /etc/hosts first (using ...
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Host name resolution on Windows 7
Other than specifying the host name in the host file for web site are there other steps needed to be able to refer to the site by that name instead of the ip address? I want to access the site like ...
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Problem with accessing a website hosted on a local device connected to the local wireless network
I am running Lighttpd 1.4.28 on an embedded device. Apart from the webserver, I run udhcpd and dnsmasq to allow other devices to connect to my embedded device to access the website.
My device has the ...
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How to change the hostname for Websphere Portal Server 6.1
I have a system with Websphere Application Server 6.1.0.35 and Websphere Portal Server 6.1.0.5. Now I changed the hostname.
Since the official IBM note on this is not available anymore (400 Bad ...
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hostname and hostname -f are backwards?
When I run the command hostname (on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server) it returns 'mail.mydomain.com'
When I run hostname -f I get 'mail' as a response.
These seem backwards to me, shouldn't hostname -f ...
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Hostname vs domain name when using dynamic DNS?
I've setup a dynamic DNS service with DynDNS, let's call it:
foobar.dyndns.net
When I setup a Linux server, what should be my hostname and domain name??
For instance, if I setup Slackware Linux, ...
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Can't reach Win 2k3 server by name on first attempt
I'm not an admin but since our regular guy is on vacation, the problem ended up in my lap. I'll be as brief as I can.
We noticed that our SQL Server 2005 instance was acting weird: app starts, app ...
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How do I change HOSTNAME on an Ubuntu server?
I'm attempting to change the hostname on my shared server with Slicehost so I can setup Postfix as a null client.
I edited /etc/hosts
and after reboot, the hostname is still incorrect.
What am I ...
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Setup IIS 7.5 with multiple website bindings and SSL?
On IIS 7.5 I am trying to achieve this with two websites:
Default Web Site is bound to:
(blank host header port 80 - http)
(blank host header port 443 - https)
go.example.com
www71.example.com
the ...
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How expensive is a hostname in htaccess? Other solutions possible?
For easy allow or disallowing of dynamic IP-adresses you can add them as a hostname in a .htaccess file.
As I have read from:
.htaccess allow from hostname?
it does a reverse lookup on the
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ec2 instance - is it safe to change /etc/hostname?
I'm having several ec2 independent instances(staging and production). They do not talk to each other in any way.
Is is safe to modify /etc/hostname for better clarity of what instance you've logged ...
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Accessing a site using ip/hostname combination
I've successfully set up multiple sites on my server, and as they are all assigned to port 80, I have assigned each a unique host name in the IIS Site Bindings.
Firstly, is this the correct way of ...
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Trouble changing hostname on a Rightscale provisioned CentOS instance
I am trying to change the hostname to host01 on an instance that was is using the RightImage_CentOS_5.4_x64_v5.6 - 11H2.a1 [rev 11] MCI.
So I set the /etc/hosts file to:
127.0.0.1 localhost ...
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Access linux machine by hostname within LAN?
I have a LAN setup with a bunch of windows and linux boxes. The LAN is built on top of the AT&T DSL Router. I don't have any type of DNS Server running. All the windows machines can identify ...
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How to make a Macintosh register a Hostname to the DHCP Server?
I have a MacBook running Snow Leopard in our company's internal network, which is basically a Windows domain network. Our TO department complains about my MacBook not specifying a name to the DHCP ...
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Ping returns different results if asked ip address or hostname
Alright, I've got an irritating problem. When I ping one of the servers in my company with
ping 192.168.1.62
I get my box ldmmit1 as the result. But when I use this line
ping ldmmit1
I ...
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What is the difference between a hostname and a fully qualified domain name?
I am new to the world of setting up servers and am baffled by the term hostname and fully qualified domain name. For example, if I want to set up a server that hosts files on the local network i.e. a ...
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Configure Zeroconf to broadcast multiple names
I want to broadcast multiple host names on a local network only from a single instance of Ubuntu Server 10 with Zeroconf or something similar. It has to be zeroconf or similar because it's going to ...
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How to change hostname of VM?
I am using vSphere Hypervisor 4.1.0 and vSphere Client and from the vSphere Client, if you go to the Summary tab of a VM, how do you change the Host name in the General box? I am stumped. I heard ...
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Redirect port for specific hostname?
Lets say I have two domains pointing to my IP:
first.com and second.com pointing to 127.0.0.1
When someone connects to first.com:6000 it should go to 127.0.0.1:6000. But when someone connects to ...
