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Hostname is a label assigned to a device connected to a computer network used to identify the device.

A hostname is a label that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network and that is used to identify the device in various forms of electronic communication such as the World Wide Web, e-mail or Usenet. Hostnames may be simple names consisting of a single word or phrase, or they may have appended the name of a DNS domain, separated from the host specific label by a period (dot). In the latter form, a hostname is also called a domain name. If the domain name is completely specified including a top-level domain of the Internet, the hostname is said to be a fully qualified domain name (FQDN).

Hostnames that include DNS domains are often stored in the Domain Name System together with IP addresses of the host they represent for the purpose of mapping the hostname to an address, or the reverse process.

Source: Wikipedia.

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How to change hostname without reboot?

I follow the instructions in https://askubuntu.com/questions/87665/how-do-i-change-the-hostname-without-a-restart. The host name is changed correctly when I verify using "hostname". However, there is one issue. Since I only change the host name but…
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Fedora 20 : Removing domain info (converted to hyphens)

Im noticing that in Fedora 20, if I modify the HOSTNAME=.... parameter to include a typical hostname: HOSTNAME=machine1.local It actually replaces the "." with a "-" character , and machine1.local is not pingable. Why is fedora interchanging the…
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Redirecting nameservers

I am running small hosting business and I have 2 servers lets say first server's primary domain is www.myfirstserver.com and ip address is 111.111.111.111. So I created nameservers for this as ns1.myfirstserver.com with hostname…
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Tomcat resources not resolving correctly

I'm trying to deploy MITRE's OpenID Connect Java Spring Server using Tomcat. My server's FQDN is park.muller.io. I've compiled the MITRE server and placed the .war file into the Tomcat webapps directory. When I visit…
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Should you use a private hostname or public hostname as server hostname?

Assume you have a web server and database server, the web server is publicly accessible, while the database is only used by the web server, their DNS is web.example.com web-internal.example.com db-internal.example.com So obviously the db should…
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How to point a domain to a dedicated ip

In my domain account while trying to update the nameservers , they are asking for hostname and ip. I have ip alone , how to create a host name. I am using windows server 2003 .
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How do I redirect/rewrite to the FQDN URL without setting ServerName?

Often in intranets, users will direct URLs to a hostname without supplying the FQDN. Example: http://internalHost Instead of http://internalHost.example.com I would like to redirect users / rewrite URLs so that everything will use the FQDN. Here's…
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Site to Site VPN with ISA 2006 to a Dyndns Hostname?

I would like to create a site-to-site VPN between my ISA 2006 and a DLink router on the other side. My ISA got a fixed external IP Address, but the Dlink only has a dynamic one. So it makes use of DynDNS. Every "cheap router" supports making VPNs to…
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DHCP clients: Where is the hostname going to come from

We are building a private cloud here, VMs have at least 2 NICs, sometimes 3 or 4, each may be statically configured for IPv4 and/or IPv6 or be configured by DHCP or a combo of the two. Yes it's a mess, but this is the design I have to work…
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IIS: make hostname point to website

I am deploying to my .net project to host.domain.com/Default Web Site/ProjectName. I would like to make it so that the URL "host.domain.com" points to my application. I suspect I don't have the bindings set correctly, but I can't figure what I need…
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changing IP address of websphere installation

i am not a websphere expert. we are migrating our websphere application to a different server (which has a different IP and hostname). we use WAS network deployment v 6.1. I came across some articles which describes the steps to change the hostname…
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How to configure Zenoss to list devices by name instead IP address automatically?

I've set Zenoss 4.2.3 to get devices from our entire network from all subnets (INFRASTRUCTURE -> DEVICES). But it returns me the device list only with the IP address, it doesn't obtain the hostnames from both Windows and Linux machines. How can I…
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Hostname vs IP address to refer to servers in Windows domain environment

I've always preferred to use hostname for things like network shares, SQL Server instances, etc. I usually find hostnames to be more descriptive and easier to remember. However, recently one of our file servers died. It's IP was tied to the network…
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What if I follow Oracle Instructions for hostname

Oracle Docs requiring Hostname to be FQDN. What do you think? Not really what I want to do but... should I? Verifying Host Names Use the following to verify host name settings: For Oracle Linux 4 and 5, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 4 and…
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When connecting to mysql on ec2, what should I be using?

I'm having issues connecting to my local mysql server currently, but I need help in being able to connect to mysql from other instances also. Background: I have a java service that is installed on a single instance, along with mysql. Other…
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