having trouble with hosts file

[Tim]

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 13:02 -0500, Scott wrote:
> When you say ip address refering to the hosts file is that the ip
> address the router sees or the actual internet address of the server? 

As far as log-ins concern, your machine only has to see itself as that
name where the checks are done.  If it's purely a local login, then only
the local side of things needs to associate that name with itself.  If
you do it over the internet, then the name has be checkable in a public
way.

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[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.22.5-76.fc7 i686 i386

Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.

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