handling multiple ips on a box?

[Loren M. Lang]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 09:51:01AM -0500, Ken Hawkins wrote:
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> From: Ken Hawkins <ken at broadjam.com>
> Date: February 2, 2005 11:17:55 AM EST
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> Subject: handling multiple ips on a box?
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> Sorry if this is not quite the place to ask however, if it is not can
> someone point me toward the right resource (on the net) for answers. I
> am
> running FreeBSD on a box with an ethernet;
> ifconfig
> em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
>         inet ???.???.???.151 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 10.50.255.255
>         inet6 fe80::230:48ff:fe2c:76e2%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
>         inet ???.???.???.152 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 10.50.1.152
>         inet ???.???.???.153 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 10.50.1.153
>         ether 00:30:48:2c:76:e2
>         media: Ethernet 100baseTX <full-duplex>
>         status: active
> 
> the <???> are just our ips. you will notice that .152 and .153 are
> aliases
> and are mapped to external ips via a switch. my question is how can I
> resolve names to the ip aliases on the box? ie
> 
> ???.???.???.152 -> a.net
> 
> and
> 
> ???.???.???.153 -> b.net
> 
> is this a /etc/hosts kind of entry?
> 
> ???.???.???.152    web1.a.net web1
> ???.???.???.152    web1.a.net.
> ???.???.???.153    web1.b.net web1
> ???.???.???.153    web1.b.net.

I'm assuming the ???'s in the hosts file are 10.50.1, right?

Remove the 2nd and 4th lines, and that the alias web1 occurs twice is bad.
Otherwise it should be fine.

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> any help would be greatly appreciated!
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> ken;
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