setting up a hostname

[Shao Zhang <shao@cia.com.au>]

Hi,
    At work, my machine connects to a ethernet lan and it has a unique
ip address. If the company's domain is
xxx.xxx.xx, I want to set up a name so that I can telnet to my machine
using shao.xxx.xxx.xx.

    I tied to edit the file in /etc/hosts but it doesn't work. Could
someone please help me?

Thx

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