Questions tagged [hostname]
Hostname is a label assigned to a device connected to a computer network used to identify the device.
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Using custom nameservers
In Godaddy I have a domain example1.com and www.example1.com with valid A record to my Centos 7 server's IP.
I 've created hostnames for that domain, ns1.example1.com, ns2.example1.com with the same ...
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IIS 10 website with hostname served by Default Web Site
I have configured some websites in IIS on my Windows VPS.
When I am accessing this subdomain installer.app-wards.com from the server, it's going to the wwwroot folder from Default Web site instead of ...
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Node.js: IP generated from my web hosting domain is "not available" (can't setup a https server)
I'm creating a brutally simple HTTPS server on render.com using Node.js, which upgrades to WebSocket communication. Here's the code:
const https = require('https');
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Serving 2 different websites from the same IIS server on the same port
I have 2 different websites:
mysite.com
api.mysite.com
I want to be able to serve both of these websites from the same webserver (same IP) and same port number.
I have followed this document, and ...
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My website is available if I type the hostname ip in the broswer, How to fix
My website is available if I type the hostname ip in the broswer
How to fix this and redirect it to my website or what to do?
I manage to found some info in previous similiar answers
server block with ...
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Changing hostname for the purpose of email delivery
I have email delivery issues, and MXtoolbox says "Reverse DNS is not a Valid Hostname". I have A and AAAA records for domain.com and mail.domain.com. The data center has set up reverse DNS ...
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hostname changed without me changing anything
My hostname changed to "cpe-172-101-0-1.maine.res.rr.com systemd-resolved" without my consent on fedora 37.
When i type journalctl -u systemd-hostnamed.service
journalctl -xe entry is:
févr. ...
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How to make systemd journal remote use hostname instead of IP address?
I do have one log server which runs systemd journal remote software to receive journal entries from remote hosts via systemd journal upload. This works fine. The only trouble that I have is that the ...
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How to Make the IP Address Appear as Part of Bash Prompt?
Running an Amazon EC2 instance with Ubuntu 22.04. The elastic ip address is 52.120.94.72.
I want the bash prompt to read like this (no space)
[email protected]:~/working_directory$
Based on some ...
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reject: RCPT from unknown[]: 450 4.7.1 Client host rejected: cannot find your reverse hostname
Sending an email from my local network is going fine. Also through Thunderbird or remote with Roundcube, which is locally installed.
But now, I am in Asia and try to send an email with Thunderbird.
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Nmap unable to resolve hostnames
I have tried running several nmap commands and I can't get the results to return host names. My results look like this:
Nmap scan report for 10.2.16.253
Host is up (0.0025s latency).
All 1000 scanned ...
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ESXi using DHCP, IP is accessible, Host Name isn't
I have a brand new ESXi host, configured for dynamic IP via DHCP, and I can access the web interface with the IP address, but not the host name. I thought (with a very shallow understanding, to be ...
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Docker: error could not translate host name to address: Name or service not known in psql
We have the following Dockerfile:
FROM debian:stable-slim
ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
RUN apt-get update && apt-get full-upgrade -y && apt-get install -y --no-install-...
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can't set a windows docker container hostname in the hosts file
I set a windows docker container to run some software (abbyy fineprint) that needs to match the docker name (abbydock) with the localhost ip (127.0.0.1).
I'm starting the container with docker run -h ...
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How to add multiple hostnames in private DNS zone in Azure to resolve hostnames for VNET?
I have an AKS (Azure Kubernetes cluster) that is on a VNET (Azure Virtual Network) that needs to connect to multiple On-prem hadoop machines to read/write data. I have a private DNS zone connected to ...
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Variables on set-hostname and mv command in shell script
I have the below script in Shell:
read n
for ((i=1;i<=$n;i++))
do
echo "Connecting to $publicip"
ssh -i ./key.txt root@$publicip 'hostnamectl set-hostname autotest$i.domain.com && ...
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Multiple hosts with the same hostname on the same network?
Hypothetical situation: I have two (Linux) computers on the same network with the same hostname, but different FQDNs (foo.example.com and foo.example.org).
They have different MAC addresses, and get ...
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Sendmail does not masquerade the hostname.domain combination
My MASQUERADE settings looks as follows...
dnl # Also accept email sent to "localhost.localdomain" as local email.
dnl #
LOCAL_DOMAIN(`localhost.localdomain')dnl
dnl #
dnl # The following ...
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nslookup script for return empty hostnames
I want to write script which returns hostnames with no IP. I wrote following part of the script but I don't know how can I return the empty answers. Thanks in advance
$numbers=1..255
foreach ($number ...
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Construct public ipv6 adress from hostname of router and interface id of client [closed]
I'm trying to ssh to some client behind a router that has a dynamic IPv6 address.
Directly using the public IPv6 address of the client works just fine.
Now, I'd like to dynamically construct the IPv6 ...
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How to use hostnames in smtp_bind_address in Postfix configuration?
It seems that Postfix does not allow hostnames in the smtp_bind_address config parameter. But it does allow hostnames in inet_interfaces.
For SPF I want to make sure which address SMTP-clients bind to ...
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FQDN without the hostname part?
As far as I know, A fully qualified domain name (FQDN) consists of two parts:
The hostname part: A single label representing a machine belonging to one specific domain.
The domain name part: ...
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Pfsense : using the server to resolve hostnames as ip in local vlans
I made a network with 3 machines, one is a pfsense server that manage a captive portal, a dns, dhcp server and firewall rules, it is in a trunk network. The second pc is a server hosting some services ...
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SSH from Windows 10 to Manjaro Linux using its hostname [closed]
I am using PuTTY to connect to a Lunix machine on local network via ssh and it works fine if I specify the IP address. However I cannot do it using the machine's host name.
It seems that Windows ...
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Setting up dnsmasq as a DNS and DHCP server on a LAN
My routers:
Main Router: 192.168.100.1
Second Router: 192.168.101.1
The Main Router is provided by my ISP(a modem/router combo all in one). I don't have control over its settings. Except for ...
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DigitalOcean Droplet ssh to use a named key
It's been a while since I've done this and configured ssh keys.
I generated an ssh key with a different file name than id_rsa
I have a DigitalOcean Droplet where I placed a named ssh key pair on ...
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Transient hostname was changed in a server
In one of our production server automatically set transient hostname.
hostnamectl status shows
Static hostname: abc11.example.com
Transient hostname: I
Icon name: computer-vm
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Ansible can't set hostname
Im facing a problem with ansible. I'm trying to set the local hostname of the vm to the ansible inventory name.
my task looks like this:
- name: set hostname to {{ inventory_hostname }}
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DNS suffix not being used with windows server hostnames over VPN
Our internal network is a windows domain, contoso.net. Internally, if a user needs to get to a file server share, they can navigate to \\fileserver\share or \\fileserver.contoso.net\share and both ...
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The ssh agent cannot 'resolve hostname' when called from within a bash script
I have a bash script
#!/bin/bash
scp -r some_directory remote_host:~
which I made executable with chmod u+x. The remote_host has been defined in my .ssh/config as follows:
Host remote_host
HostName ...
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Connecting subdomain to a server as hostname
I have my website (mydomain.com) connected with a vps server and now I want to setup another server and use subdomain from main domain for hostname as well the nameservers (e.g. srv1.mydomain.com ...
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How to change the hostname on the single-node K8s node
Environments:
OS: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
Kubernetes: v1.16.15
deployment tool: kubeadm v1.16.15
I initialize a single-node K8s on my workstation with the following configuraions:
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apiVersion: kubeadm....
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Debian 10 MX hostname issue
I am facing an issue where every single site like intodns, dnsstuff, mx toolbox is reporting that i have 2 issues.
Namely:
Reverse DNS does not contain the hostname
Reverse DNS does not match SMTP ...
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Ubuntu set hostname via hostnamectl with multiple virtual hosts
I would like to set the hostname of my Ubuntu 16.04 to a FQDN, as I plan to install Postfix server. However I have multiple domains hosted in the web server via Apache2 virtual hosts. For example:
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change the hostname for a given service
I have 2 services running on my server. The first python service is working as expected.
# netstat -tulpn | grep LISTEN | grep 8888
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8888 0.0.0.0:* ...
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What causes a computer/phone/device to do a DNS lookup for its own hostname?
The two main things I'm wondering are:
What causes a computer/phone/device to do a DNS lookup for its own hostname/FQDN
How long after a device leaves a network will it retain the "settings"...
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how to setup dnsmasq for DNS for private and public hostnames via different DNS servers [duplicate]
lets say i have this private hostname dev.private.example.com that is only accessible in a private network over VPN connection and i have prod.example.com that is accessible to the internet. I have ...
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Can not ping any hostname/domain when ufw enabled
Why I can't ping any domain/hostname when ufw enabled?
[root@ip-172-31-23-37 ec2-user]# ping google.com
ping: google.com: Name or service not known
[root@ip-172-31-23-37 ec2-user]# ufw disable
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Add user home directory depending hostname
Is it possible to add a list of users and change the home directory of each user depending on the host name of the server?
Thanks in advance
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How to identity who is scraping my website?
I have an e-commerce website, hosted on AWS.
I understand there are tools that prevent/block the scraping bots. But is it possible to detect who is scraping my website? I mean, would I be able to ...
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Changed hostname, openssl s_client not working
I changed a CentOS 6 GNU/Linux hostname, and now everything is perfect regarding the new hostname.
But when executing openssl commands, such as:
# openssl s_client -CApath /etc/ssl/certs -showcerts -...
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How to find another container on the same ECS cluster by hostname?
This question feels too obvious to not already have an answer but all of my google searches are coming up with nothing.
In docker (docker-compose) you can easily get the IP of another container by ...
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Ping server remotely timed out
I recently setup local Ubuntu server to host VS Code and NGINX servers which work fine on codeserver (hostname) and can ping the hostname and IP address remotely. The problem I am facing is that I ...
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WinServer Connects To SMB Share As "TINA2"
I have a computer that has a fileshare (Windows Server 2012). When I looked at the sessions, I saw a computer named tina2. There is no current computer on our network named tina2. When I ...
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Accessing servers through hostname now requires FQDN?
After upgrading to Linux Mint 20, the servers (pgsql databases and windows network share) on our internal network now require the fully qualified domain instead of just the machine name.
For example, ...
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How to block Hostname in htaccess?
I get thousands of server requests from "clients.your-server.de"
i use these code in htaccess to block bots and spiders, but i did not know if the two first lines of code will work ...
Is it ...
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Webmin redirects to my hostname instead of my domain name [closed]
I have Webmin working on a domain with an SSL certificate. However, when I visit it over HTTP, it redirects to https://hostname:10000 instead of the domain name.
I've set the FQDN in /etc/hosts (...
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Can my Ceph nodes have the same hostname?
I have a high availability solution which requires me to have all my nodes using the same hostname. I've been tasked to use ceph cluster storage, but I just reached a dead end.
I can't figure out how ...
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Add Linux hostname to Windows DNS GUI [closed]
In Windows Server 2008 R2, and in an Active Directory Environment, how can I add an alias hostname to DNS, so that all workstation will know the internal ip address of that alias hostname?
I have a ...
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Issue with hostname on Windows Server 2012 domain controller
We moved sites recently and since the move I have been unable to get the DC to respond to pings / file locations using the hostname - it can be pinged fine, and I can ping the hostname from the DC ...
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