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Re: [LUG] ssh and hostname

 

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:17:40PM +0000, Tony Sumner wrote:

> So I can now do what I want but I'd like to understand the principles.
> Why does 192.168.0.5 work but 'murgatroyd' not? ie why is /etc/hosts not
> doing the job it is designed to do?

Can you ping murgatroyd? What is the hostname of murgatroyd?

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