Hostname alias

[garylang]

Can anybody explain how I can set a hostname alias in RHEL5.

We are testing RHEL to replace our Solaris LDAP servers, one of the things we need is to be able to set a hostname alias on the public interface.

In solaris we can just update the /etc/hosts file to something like

ipaddress hostname alias1 alias2

Things looks alittle different in RHEL, the host file only contains

127.0.0.1 hostname.fqdn localhost.localdomain localhost

I read about the sysconfig/network files but can only see about changing the hostname there and nothing about setting a different alias.

Thanks

Gary

[Segfault]

man hosts

You can add lines.

[garylang]

Ok got it, I was not sure if I could just add the same ip address in the hosts file as specified in /etc/sysconfig/network and then add an extra alias to it.

Cheers