Re: setting host aliases (like /etc/hosts)?

• Subject: Re: setting host aliases (like /etc/hosts)?
• From: Jeff Donovan <email@hidden>
• Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 07:54:16 -0500

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to set up host name aliases for
systems on our local network... I checked /etc/hosts, but it
says it's for single-user runlevel only, and referred me to
lookupd, which gets its info from netinfo, etc...

I see that if I do:

# nidump hosts .
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost

those basic names are defined.... Can anyone tell me how I would
go about adding, say, "flaco" as the host name alias for some IP
on our network, like 192.168.100.50...?

Does this seem a reasonable way to access machines by name on
a small local network? Or do people tend to run their own DNS
servers, rather than making host name aliases?


Thanks!

Bill
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