Making a hostname show up in a traceroute, ala rednote

Making a hostname show up in a traceroute, ala rednote

[nick G]

Hello all.
    Recently, a friend of mine who is starting up a hosting company set hostnames on his boxes that are sitting on the planet.  As an example, he wants 246.70-85-55.reverse.theplanet.com to show up as raynbobox.fmservers.co.uk when one traces to this server, a lot like how rednote shows up.  Any ideas on how this is done?
Thanks,
Nick

Re: Making a hostname show up in a traceroute, ala rednote

[Stephen Clower]

Nick,

     Not sure how Redhat's set up, but in Slackware there's a file called /etc/hosts which allows you to assign aliases to various IP addresses.

On Sunday, February 13, 2005, 6:55:23 PM, you stood on a roof and loudly proclaimed:

> Hello all.
>     Recently, a friend of mine who is starting up a hosting
> company set hostnames on his boxes that are sitting on the planet. 
> As an example, he wants 246.70-85-55.reverse.theplanet.com to show
> up as raynbobox.fmservers.co.uk when one traces to this server, a
> lot like how rednote shows up.  Any ideas on how this is done?
> Thanks,
> Nick
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Re: Making a hostname show up in a traceroute, ala rednote

[Gregory Nowak]

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Yes, but /etc/hosts is meant to be used for small private networks, so
that wouldn't work in this case. Without seeing a traceroute to a
particular machine on Janina's rednote.net domain that illustrates
your example, I'm not sure what the exact answer to your question
is. However, if I do understand what you're asking for, then all your
friend should need to do is to put an A record into his DNS zones
using the same IP address in each A record.

Greg


On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 07:02:05PM -0600, Stephen Clower wrote:
> Nick,
> 
>      Not sure how Redhat's set up, but in Slackware there's a file called /etc/hosts which allows you to assign aliases to various IP addresses.
> 

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