[H-GEN] aliases

Frank Brand fbrand at mailbox.uq.edu.au
Wed Nov 12 21:35:07 EST 1997


Craig Eldershaw wrote:
> 
> >Given that my username on UQ is zzjboggo and the name of my Linux box is
> >dragon, can I set up or configure my linux box to respond to requests for
> >dragon.dialin.uq.net.au without renaming the machine ?
> 
> No.
> 
> >Or do I have to get my login name changed at UQ ?
> 
> Yes.  Well actually, not your login name, but your hostname (which happens to
> be the same).  and I suspect you've Buckley's...
> 
Well Prentice does offer an alias service for homepages at least and
just how far this might be taken I don't know but it may be worth
talking to them.
-- 
Frank Brand
E-mail: fbrand at mailbox.uq.edu.au
Homepage: http://www.uq.edu.au/~zzfbrand
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