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A hostname is a human-readable nickname that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network and that is 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 a domain name, which is a name in a Domain Name System (DNS), separated from the host specific label by a period (dot). In the latter form, the hostname is also called a domain name. If the domain name is completely specified including a top-level domain of the Internet, then the hostname is said to be a fully qualified domain name (FQDN).

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vncserver has wrong hostname

I had to change the name of the windows 7 system. Unaccountably, vncserver is still using the old computer name. This was RealVnc free version. I re-installed but it is still using the old computer name. I had a Z400 motherboard go bad and it took…
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Yocto - Where is the most appropriate place to disable creation of /etc/hostname

When building core-image-minimal on poky (in my case this is being built for custom hardware loosely based on the BBG reference), yocto writes a hostname to /etc/hostname on the file system image. Occasionally it is preferable to exclude the…
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What is my DCOS master hostname?

In the nginx tutorial for DC/OS: https://dcos.io/docs/1.7/usage/tutorials/nginx/ There is repeated reference to this URL: http://YOUR-DCOS-MASTER-HOSTNAME/service/nginx However, I cannot find any mention of what my dcos master hostname is anywhere…
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I don't see ESP8266 hostname

I have run on my raspberry a program which scan network for hostnames. It should recognize ESP8266 but raspberry can't get hostname from it. I tried also a few other network scanners but the result is always the same. It looks like ESP has hidden…
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DNS setting of a domain

I have a domain, www.xyz.co.uk now I would like to point for example, www.data.xyz.co.uk to the ip address of my server(digitalocean) So far what I did is, I have created a hostname on dns managementconsole of godaddy, with data.xyz.co.uk and…
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asp.net core RC2 iis hosting

I have hosted asp.net core app in IIS on window server 2012 R2 Standard. My site works fine when I use localhost based URL on the machine but when I try to access the URL using host name/machine name from network computer it does not work. What do I…
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Installing Plesk 12.5 on Ubuntu 14.04, setting up correct hostname?

I am trying to install Plesk 12.5.3 on fresh VPS running Ubuntu 14.04. Im using http://vultr.com (similar to digitalocean.com) etc The part I am struggling with is what to put in the /etc/hosts/ and /etc/hostname as this is required for the Plesk…
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Postfix sending mail from hostname

heey all, I'm having a question regarding postfix and how it sends mail. I've set up correctly and i'm able to send mail which doesn't end up in spam. But for some reason when i show details of the mail (on gmail for example) it shows this a sender…
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How to create network file based on IP address from file similar to /etc/hosts

I have a file which maps IP address to hostnames. Its format is similar to hosts file and contains a list of IP address to hostname mapping. eg. 10.200.99.1 master1 10.200.99.2 master2 10.200.99.3 master3 10.200.99.4 slave1 10.200.99.5 …
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Different hosts with same hostname?

I know that the hostname www.google.com has many IP addresses associated in the DNS. So, let's say I go to www.google.com and the DNS gives me one IP, lets call it 111.11.1.1, so I send my queries to that IP. Then somebody else goes to…
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Cygwin: ssh login issue if client have a keyfile

I have an issue with Cygwin on one windows server (2008 R2 STD) it's a first time a saw that: First, I saw a little bug after the installation of cygwin, when I open a Cygwin terminal the username have the hostname in the name (WANCYFILE3 is the…
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How can I find someones hostname?

To go more indepth i have a program where I want to prompt the user to type their given username and password (Given from me) and make them type it in, if it is correct it will run a check on the hostname to see if the password matches their…
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ServerName vs Hostname ( /etc/sysconfig/network vs /etc/hosts ) what is the difference?

If i want to name my server.. x.domain.tld why must i edit 2 files in order to accomplish this. the two files being: /etc/sysconfig/network /etc/hosts also does the servername or hostname.. do i need to create an A record for it with my DNS…
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ping localhosts, edit /etc/network/hosts

I want to succesfully ping some hostnames. These hostnames have the same IP, 127.0.0.1 So i edited /etc/network/hosts: 127.0.0.1 host1 127.0.0.1 host2 127.0.0.1 host3 127.0.0.1 host4 127.0.0.1 host5 127.0.0.1 host6 127.0.0.1 host7 127.0.0.1…
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Pass data such as username in hostname

I have seen some sites use hostnames as data such as usernames (for example username.example.com) and was wondering how you would be able to achieve this. Is it good practice to use hostnames like this or are there reasons against it? Thanks in…
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