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Re: DNS and Hostnames (was: Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?)



On 19 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> 
[snip] 

> This is just the hosts file for one of the machines ...
> 
> What are you intending to accomplish with the acampbell.org.uk and
> accampbell.uklinux.net entries?
> 
> Each entry after the IP address on a line should be an identifier for
> this machine and this machine only.

Thanks. After a fair amount of googling I've found some templates for
/etc/hosts and these have clarified most of the issues for me.
> 
> > Related question to start of this thread: is ssh what I need?  The
> > situation is that I have two computers (desktop and notebook)
> > connected to the router and accessing the Internet independently. I
> > want to be able to exchange files between them. (Email would do at a
> > pinch but I can't see how to do that either.)
> >
> 
> Well, scp is ssh's file transfer tool.  If your router also acts as a
> firewall *and* you have particular directories you care about, you might
> consider using NFS or Samba for file sharing.  Do *not* use NFS or Samba
> unless you have a firewall of some sort in between those machines and
> the world at large.
> 
> (Actually, I strongly recommend configuring a firewall, regardless of
> what services you choose to run.  Close every inbound port that you
> don't absolutely need.)
> 

Yes, I do have a firewall. I'll take up your suggestion of looking into
NFS and Samba and do some more work on all this over the coming days.
Thanks to you and everyone else for help.

Anthony

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