Re: Help configuring internal network

[Michael Hennebry]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2022, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> On 2022-03-20 8:00 a.m., Tim >R. G. Newbury 
> wrote:
> > > edit your /etc/hosts file to give the hdhomerun unit a fixed IP
> > > address.
> >
> > When has the /etc/hosts file ever given anything an IP address?
>
> You are correct, and I am completely wrong. A static address for the computer 
> would be set by editing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eno1 (or 
> whatever) or using the network config gui to do the same thing.

Huh?

From man hosts:
> SYNOPSIS
>        /etc/hosts
> For each host a single line should be present
>        with the following information:
>           IP_address canonical_hostname [aliases...]
>    In  modern  systems,  even though the host table has been superseded by
>    DNS, it is still widely used for:
>
>    bootstrapping
>           Most systems have a small host table containing the name and ad-
>           dress  information  for  important  hosts  on the local network.
>           This is useful when DNS is not running, for example during  sys-
>           tem bootup.