/etc/hosts

[Sharif Oerton]

Hi all,

I'm having some trouble following the instructions in section 7.11.

I'm installing on a computer that will be connected to the Internet via ADSL, 
using DHCP (not sure if that's relevant or not but it's there just in case). 

I don't understand this fully qualified domain name thing. What should I use? 
The hostname, as configured in the previous section, is "arya". And just to 
check that I'm understanding this correctly, the IP address in the second 
non-blank or -comment line in /etc/hosts is just any private IP address?

So then, my /etc/hosts would end up looking like

127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.1 arya.[something]

Replacing [something] with the domain name?

And what is an "alias"? How do I decide on one?

Thanks a lot,
Sharif

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