[wplug] ssh another computer by alias doen't work

[Ryan W. Frenz]

Put an entry for discrete in element's /etc/hosts file, and vice
versa, i.e element's /etc/hosts would look like:

127.0.0.1 localhost element
192.168.x.y discrete

where x and y are the last two octets of discrete's LAN address.

Ryan


On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:10:02 -0700 (PDT), Deliang Shi
<sdliang02 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Have two computers connected by DSL router and want
> them to know each other by alias.
> One was assigned the name "element" by modifying
> /etc/hosts and /etc/sysconfig/network
> [root at element home]# cat /etc/hosts
> # Do not remove the following line, or various
> programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> 127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain
> localhost
> 127.0.0.1               element
> [root at element home]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network
> NETWORKING=yes
> HOSTNAME=element
> The other was assigned name "discrete" with similar
> procedure.
> 
> They use the alias in the terminal. But I can't ssh
> one from the other one by alias.
> [root at element home]# ssh discrete
> ssh: discrete: Name or service not known
> 
> ssh by the ip address is OK.
> [root at element home]# ssh 192.168.2.3
> root at 192.168.2.3's password:
> [root at discrete root]#
> 
> What more need I do to enable ssh by alias?
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
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Ryan W. Frenz
rfrenz at gmail.com