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What if I follow Oracle Instructions for hostname [duplicate]
Oracle Docs requiring Hostname to be FQDN. What do you think? Not really what I want to do but... should I?
Verifying Host Names
Use the following to verify host name settings:
For Oracle Linux 4 ...
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Use SSH hostname aliases in browser
I set up hostname aliases in .ssh/config, which works great:
Host my-web
HostName 515.346.96.21
So I can do this:
ssh my-web
But in a browser, I still need to type in "http://515.346.96.21". ...
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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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Should a server's hostname have a DNS A record?
I have a VPS which is currently serving 2 websites and a game server. The "primary" website - my website - is robinjam.net.
I've read multiple conflicting tutorials on the internet regarding ...
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user version of /etc/hosts
I am a user on a Solaris 10 system and I wish to maintain my own version of /etc/hosts. This file will function like a normal /etc/hosts, except it will only resolve hosts from processes that I run.
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Is a matching entry in /etc/hosts required for hostname?
I was installing a Tomcat webapp that refused to work until I stumbled on someone else's issue with an unrelated product. The solution was to add the machine's name to /etc/hosts, to match the name ...
