Re: aliasing internet addresses
> At Wednesday, 3 December 2003, Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>
> wrote:
>
> >I want to alias internet addresses localy, is it possible?
> >For example to alias www.site1.org -> www.site2.org such that trying to
> >access www.site1.org would actually connect to www.site2.org.
> >I didn't see how to do this with /etc/hosts if it is even possible that
> >way.
If www.site2.org is static IP, why can't you just map www.site1.org to
that IP in /etc/hosts?
Also if you run your own DNS you can do this; I've done this in Windows
DNS Server (in my former life); I use dnsmasq on Linux. There's a
special type of DNS record for a full alias.
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