SSH to your hostname

[melodie]

After we saw how to change hostnames in PCLinuxOS, Change hostname PCLinuxOS, it might be cool to ssh directly the hostname of the remote machine. To do that, all is needed is add an alias in the /etc/hosts in the machine where you want to start the command.

Here at first floor my machine's name is "herisson". At the ground floor it's "hulotte". I added the ip and hostname of the remote machine in /etc/hosts:

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192.168.1.8 hulotte
so from "herisson" I can just "ssh melodie@hulotte".

In the paste I also used a script that was allowing connection to my remote machine without providing the password each time, I will try to find it.

[AndrzejL]

Right... I prefer this way. PCC > Network and Internet > Host definitions.

Regards

[melodie]

Hi,
I never know what to do with "yourdomain", could you explain ?

[AndrzejL]

Hi,
I never know what to do with "yourdomain", could you explain ?

It can be anything. Flower / thenudiebar / whatever.

If You use lets say 192.168.0.120 and then thenudiebar instead of yourdomain when You will ping thenudiebar it will ping the IP mentioned above.

I use it as well for blocking certain page...

127.0.0.1 facebook.com
127.0.0.1 myspace.com

If anyone tries to visit those pages he gets error...

Btw - this method of hostnaming the pcs has a major flaw... all the machines have to have static IP in your network...

I use static IP - yes. If You use this method You have static IPs too... but sometimes people connect machines via DHCP - this method will fail then - as machines will have different IP each time.

Andy

[melodie]

Very true, I also use fixed ip's on the lan.

So you say "yourdomain" is my "herisson" at first floor, "hulotte" at ground floor, and "localhost" in the other default pclinuxos configurations ?

[AndrzejL]

Very true, I also use fixed ip's on the lan.

So you say "yourdomain" is my "herisson" at first floor, "hulotte" at ground floor, and "localhost" in the other default pclinuxos configurations ?

Yes that's what it is. There is no limit of the entries so you can add multiple hostnames for 1 ip. Just like there are 2 lines for my 127.0.0.1 ip on my screenshot.

Andy