my hosts file

[Scott]

Yes I am using 8080 for my Cms.  This is used to access the Cms itself.

Scott


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron Konstam" <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 8:55 AM
Subject: Re: my hosts file


> On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 17:47 -0500, Scott wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Aaron,
>> 
>> Okay I have the hosts set up now.  Like I said they are going to be
>> running 
>> on the same machine.  Also just out of curiosity say you have a
>> certain port 
>> like my Cms(Content Management System) runs on 8080 does this need to
>> be 
>> present in the hosts file or am I just telling the computer okay you
>> will 
>> act as these machines.  My educated guess is that I am just telling
>> the 
>> machine okay you will be these servers but I just want to make sure I
>> know 
>> what I am doing here.  This is the first time I have mucked with the
>> hosts 
>> file.
> I am not sure I am understanding you. The hosts file is only of use to
> tell the local machine what names are associated with which ip number.
> You local machine could be addressed by many names by remote machines as
> long as the DNS records translate the names to the ip address associated
> with the NIC on your local machine. So if you are running more than one
> server on the same local machine that really makes no difference to the
> local machines configuration. Although for sanity all the names your
> machine is called remotely should appear in your hosts file associated
> with your local ip number.
> 
> Now the reference to 8080 confuses me. Are you saying that the service
> runs on port 8080? If so no mention of that need be in the hosts file.
> Clarify this because that might effect the contents of
> your /etc/services file.
>> Once more just to make sure I am following your advice I will send out
>> the 
>> hosts file.  I apologize if I am very careful but I worked on Windows 
>> machines for almost 20 years and now just really getting my feet wet
>> so to 
>> speak with Linux.  I do hostse have some basic knowledge of Linux and
>> do read if I 
>> need to or if I can understand it. 
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