80 Domain Name Host Alias New

Ip address is the ip address of the host.

Domain name host alias. To add a host name myhost with an ip address 192 0 2 16 add the following line in the etc hosts file 192 0 2 16 myhost newhost myhost e0a. Many companies choose to register several different domains typically variations of the same domain name and have them all point to the same central web site. The important difference is that alias can coexist with other records on that name.

The only difference is that the domain alias has no files web pages of its own. An alias record can also be used if you wish to alias the root domain to another service which you cannot do with a cname record. Newhost and myhost e0a are the alias names for myhost.

Domain name alias a domain name alias is a registered domain name that points to another domain. Host name is the name of the host. Aliases are the alias names for the host.

With a domain alias the url in the address bar of the users browser stays exactly as they typed it and would.