From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 9 14:57:48 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6DFE16A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 14:57:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from complex.heavybit.com (complex.heavybit.com [216.127.86.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8394F43D2D for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 14:57:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ken@rosewoodblues.com) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (c-24-98-140-190.atl.client2.attbi.com [24.98.140.190]) (authenticated) by complex.heavybit.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j19Evml27539 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 06:57:48 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <094c6888335eff7ca415bc1c475e42bb@rosewoodblues.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: " " From: Ken Hawkins Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:57:44 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) Subject: single box handling multiple ips, how? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 14:57:48 -0000 Sorry if this is not quite the place to ask however, if it is not can someone point me toward the right resource (on the net) for answers. I am running FreeBSD on a box with an ethernet; ifconfig em0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=1b inet ???.???.???.151 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 10.50.255.255 inet6 fe80::230:48ff:fe2c:76e2%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet ???.???.???.152 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 10.50.1.152 inet ???.???.???.153 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 10.50.1.153 ether 00:30:48:2c:76:e2 media: Ethernet 100baseTX status: active the are just our ips. you will notice that .152 and .153 are aliases and are mapped to external ips via a switch. my question is how can I resolve names to the ip aliases on the box? ie ???.???.???.152 -> a.net and ???.???.???.153 -> b.net is this a /etc/hosts kind of entry? ???.???.???.152 web1.a.net web1 ???.???.???.152 web1.a.net. ???.???.???.153 web1.b.net web1 ???.???.???.153 web1.b.net. any help would be greatly appreciated! ken;