A hostname is the label given to a device connected to a computer network.
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Can't ping to another linux machine by hostname
When i try to ping to another linux machine in my local network i didn't work when i insert the host-name in the ping command.
sudo ping Raspberry2
It only works when i insert the IP address in the ...
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How to correctly set hostname and domain name?
I am renting a server, running Ubuntu 16.04 at a company, let's name it company.org.
Currently, my server is configured like this:
hostname: server737263
domain name: company.org
Here's my FQDN:
...
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httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name
We have a requirement to replace the existing certificate and also install the recent patch of content server in our content server which based on linux and the database is MAXDB. However Database ...
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CentOS 7 hostname netbios/fqdn output
I have a CentOS 7 install that is giving me some weird returns when I lookup the hostname of the localmachine. I am used to working with Windows and the hosts file (/etc/hosts in CentOS) so feel like ...
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Centrino N-6205 iwn0 driver - No Link attempting to connect to wifi (OpenBSD 6.0)
After reading the iwn manpage I downloaded the latest firmware from:
http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/6.0/
and unzipped the contents into /etc/firmware, after doing that I configured /etc/...
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Minbian install performing strangely after hostname changes?
I've re-flasahed this SD card with the latest image of Minbain 4 or 5 times tonight.
Strangely it works perfectly (literally the same image) on one of my RPi3s but not on the other.
When I re-flash ...
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Why do some of my logs use Localhost and others Hostname - Different Servers
I am debugging something related to LDAP loggins, Ldap SSH Login not working - Same configs worked on 20+ other servers - Ubuntu and I noticed that in some servers, the logs use localhost and in ...
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Why does hostname -i give different results on different machines? [closed]
On machine a I run
hostname -i
and I get:
10.42.16.40
On machine b I run
hostname -i
and I get:
fe80::4a0:3bff:fed8:ef09%eth0 10.42.16.32
All I want is the IP address
My question is: Why does ...
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Mac OS X Terminal Equivalent for Host Name Info
In Linux, using a Bash Terminal, I can do:
hostname -d to display the name of the DNS domain, and
hostname -i to display the network address(es) of the hostname .
How can I retrieve the same ...
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Is this my hostname and DNS domain name?
I am trying to find what my VM's hostname is. When I do cat /etc/hosts I get:
127.0.0.1 localhost
Is localhost the hostname? The DNS domain name isn't written where do I find that? When I write ...
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Does your hostname save on your NIC | centos 7?
I recently installed CentOS 7 on a new hard drive with all default settings and when I enter:
# hostname
I get:
SVP
But "SVP" is neither in /etc/hostnames nor /etc/hosts configured.
But I have ...
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Rename RedHat7 hostname without reboot
I am new to Linux. How do I rename the RedHat7 hostname without a reboot? I am also trying to automate this task, so please provide the commands for the shell script.
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Services not discovered in hotspot
CONTEXT
I have a r-pi3 with OSMC installed. I have set it up so that it is connected to the router using ethernet and also runs a wifi hotspot(Let's name it 'osmc_wifi').
I generally connect to '...
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How to keep sshd service running all the time and set permanent FQDN hostname in CentOS7?
I have installed CentOS7 in VMWare Workstation 12 player and I'm trying to use key-based SSH authentication. I have completed the process of passwordless SSH and it works fine but I have to start the ...
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hostname -i returns strange result in linux
If I run below command, I am getting some strange IP addresses.
hostname -i
198.105.244.11 198.105.254.11
My host file entry is in default configuration, below are the contents of my /etc/hosts file ...
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Simple name server alternative a la /etc/hosts [duplicate]
I use /etc/hosts to define names to local addresses in the network, so I can type ssh user@raspberry instead of ssh [email protected].
It works very well for a single machine, but now I need to ...
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Local hostname resolution with BIND and custom domain
I have recently converted one of my main Linux servers into my router as well, and made my old router simply a switch and an access point. My one issue is that I am unable to automatically determine ...
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Why is LDAP trying to connect by hostname instead of localhost?
I have set up an LDAP server on localhost and generated certificate with CN=localhost. But when I run the command
ldapsearch -H ldap://localhost -D "..." -w password -ZZ -d1
I get the error
...
...
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3answers
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SSH without knowing IP addresses
I'm running Arch on my daily use laptop and I have two SSH terminals open up every time I login. I SSH into another Arch laptop, which is essentially a network connected hard drive in which I backup ...
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1answer
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Site cannot be reached after installing centos 7
Hello I am new to this unix background. I had set up a server on centOs 7. i had given ip as 192.0.2.123 and host name as www.example.com.
now when i www.example.com hit the hostname in the browser ...
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How can I resolve an IP address to a hostname in Arch Linux? [duplicate]
What is the most concise way to resolve a hostname to a local IP address in Arch Linux?
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Assign hostname to a variable in ksh
I am trying to assign the output of hostname to a variable and use it in my script. While I was able to get the variable to another logic, when I try to print the variable it doesn't print the ...
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How to specify protocol prefix containing “:” to bash-completion function _known_hosts_real
I am attempting to use bash-completion for URLs of the form "proto://host". Without the ":", I see expected behavior, with the ":" present, the URL comes out "faulty".
Bash completion has a function ...
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Turn off resolve peers in uTorrent server (utserver)
I have utserver running and WebUI is also working. I noticed the default seems to have the peer resolve the IP address to their host name. I want to turn this off. In the Windows client, you could ...
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How to add hostname as first line of a file
I have a file which has a few lines.
one
two
three
four
five
I need to add hostname of the server I'm working on as the first line of the file.
For example if abcd555.india.com is the server, the ...
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Setting up hostnames on local network [duplicate]
So, I'm setting up an experiment network for me and the other geeks at my school to use for website testing and server practice, and I'm the sys and net admin (but really it's just for playing Quake). ...
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hostname -f .com.com
I modified my /etc/hostname file and /etc/hosts like that:
hostname.com
and
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
ff02::1 ip6-...
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I got error “hostname: Name or service not known” when checking IP of hostname
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 on my company's cloud service (my instance has elastic IP)
I want to check out IP of my instance I'm running by command line but it didn't work.
root@ubuntu14-graphite:~# ...
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DRBD - 'node1' not defined in your config (for this host) - Error when setting Primary [closed]
I am getting the following error when trying to set the Primary node for DRBD.
'node1' not defined in your config (for this host).
I know this is related to DNS/Hostname/Hosts and the config ...
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how to change all the hostnames reported by hostname --all-fqdns?
Running hostname -A reports two host names: an incorrect one that doesn't even resolve to my server and a correct one.
$ hostname -A
notmyhostname.notmydomain.com myhostname.mydomain.com
The ...
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1answer
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sudo: unable to resolve host “hostname”
I'm testing a VPS provider, and recently created a virtual machine with a hostname testserver using an ubuntu template. This VPS provider reserves and bills resources by the month, so if you create a ...
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Why are the names different in “/etc/HOSTNAME” file and hostname command in SLES11SP3?
My OS is SuSE(SLES11, SP3), executing the hostname command:
# hostname
lxc-dl580-g8-1
But the name in /etc/HOSTNAME file is different?
# cat /etc/HOSTNAME
linux-2pny.site
Why are the names ...
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Separate server's hostname appearing in this server's cron logs
I get entries like these in /var/log/cron, in a host named SERV2 (RHEL 6.2):
Apr 21 14:50:01 SERV1 CROND[14799]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 -S DISK 1 1)
Apr 21 15:20:01 serv2 CROND[24438]: (root) ...
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Why does connecting using an ssh key fail with one host name but work with others? [closed]
Trying to use an ssh key to a server which has different host names works with some host names, but not with others?
Is there some reason why ssh would work that way?
E.g. say hostname1.com and ...
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1answer
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Check presence of a hostname under custom port in known_hosts
I need to add a check if the hostname is already present in the known_hosts.
Normally I would do something like that:
ssh-keygen -H -F hostname
However, that does not seem to work for me in this ...
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Hostname troubles
I am trying to change the hostname on a Linux RHEL6.5 box and have changed it in /etc/hosts and in /etc/sysconfig/network, as I have read..
The command hostname'now returns the new hostname, but ...
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Rsyslog to use hostname instead of leftmost FQDN label
I have an Ubuntu 15.10 configuration in which /etc/hostname reads
projectname-environmentname
and /etc/hosts reads
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 environmentname.projectname.tld projectname-...
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Where does FQDN come from when not set explicitly?
When there is no FQDN explicitly specified on an Ubuntu server:
$ cat /etc/hostname
banana
$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost banana
Then where does mydomain.com come from?
$ hostname -A
banana....
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1answer
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Unable to update hostname output for Ubuntu Server (on Digital Ocean)
I recently created a droplet server at Digital Ocean named:
ubuntu-2gb-nyc3-01-2016-03-13
and then did a rename on the server at the Digital Ocean control panel, to exchange.mydomain.com.
...
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0answers
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Set name for NAS with samba
Hi I'm in the midst of setting up a torrent box which has ArchLinux installed. I've been following quite a few of the archlinux tutorials and I'm at the point where I have a samba server up and ...
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How to randomly pick one of multiple hostnames under one alias (~/.ssh/config)
Is it possible to make ssh pick a random ip adress (using a wildcard) to connect? We have 30 computers with IP addresses from "asd1.asd.asd.asd.com" to "asd30.asd.asd.asd.com", and i want to connect ...
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hostname: Name or service not known
I got this error during the installation of 2 packages. I tried to follow different tutorials around internet, however none of them seems working for me. Can you help me with this?
root@blackbox:~# ...
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How to change the part after root@
For example.
[root@ip-10-0-7-225 ~]#
I edited /etc/hosts but it didn't work.
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ssh_config: Add a host section that matches IPs even when connecting via hostname
I want a host section in my ssh config that matches any local IP:
Host 10.* 192.168.*.* 172.31.* 172.30.* 172.2?.* 172.1?.*
setting
setting
...
This works as long as I connect directly to a ...
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Why doesn't 'sudo' skip hostname-checking when the command can be run on 'ALL' hosts?
The sudoers file provides a way to limit which "runas" entries apply to which hosts. When running a command with sudo, the hostname is checked against the hosts on which a "runas" entry applies.
When ...
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CentOS 6.7: 'No address associated with name' as 'hostname --fqdn' output
please, before read this question, I would pray you to consider that I'm a Linux newbie and that I really need a help. I apologize in advance if the question will be trivial or stupid, I will search ...
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How to get the computer name (not its hostname)?
All the results of my searches end up having something to do with hostname or uname -n. I looked up the manual for both, looking for sneaky options, but no luck.
I am trying to find an equivalent of ...
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Telnetting the local port working but trying with ip not working
My question is similar but opposite to to Telnetting the Local port not working but trying the ip working
For me, telnet to the local port works but trying with IP does not work :(
I am running ...
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What is the best way to keep a Linux server's hostname consistent?
We have a server with a CentOS distribution of Linux. It lost its hostname in the month somehow, since our last reboot. We ran an ETL (extract, transform, load) job last week, and part of that ...
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Browse by hostname from internet browser
I can browse my server site using
ip:8080
which is inside my home network.But I am not able to browse using
hostname:8080
I do not have dns server. I have edited /etc/hosts file to include ...
