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Mastering Linux Network Administration

You're reading from   Mastering Linux Network Administration Master the skills and techniques that are required to design, deploy, and administer real Linux-based networks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784399597
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Setting up Your Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Revisiting Linux Network Basics 3. Communicating Between Nodes via SSH 4. Setting up a File Server 5. Monitoring System Resources 6. Configuring Network Services 7. Hosting HTTP Content via Apache 8. Understanding Advanced Networking Concepts 9. Securing Your Network 10. Troubleshooting Network Issues Index

Understanding Linux hostname resolution

On a network, it's much more convenient to look up other resources by name, rather than remembering the IP address of every resource we connect to. By default, looking up hosts by name may not function without a little configuration. For example, you can try the ping command against the name of one of your Linux machines, and you may or may not get a response. This is because a DNS entry for the resource you're connecting to might not exist. If it doesn't, you'll see an error similar to the following:

ping: unknown host potato

However, if you ping the device by its IP, it would more than likely respond:

64 bytes from 10.10.96.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.356 ms

Note

Press Ctrl + C on your keyboard to break out of your ping command, as it will ping forever if it finds a connection.

The reason for this is in order for a network host to be able to contact another, it needs to know its IP address. If you type in a name instead of an IP...

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