[PLUG] Two Noobie questions

[Russell Senior]

>>>>> "Rich" == Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> writes:

Mike> 2.  Where do I go to either assign an IP address or find out
Mike> what IP address the machine is using?

Rich>   /etc/hosts. The format is IP address <space>
Rich> fully-qualified-host-name <space> alias; e.g.,

Bzzt.  /etc/hosts is just a mapping of ip number to hostname.  That is
not where you go to assign an IP address to an interface, which is
what I gather Mike was looking for.  Nor does /etc/hosts get filled in
magically.  Essentially, it is a place to manually place mappings.


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