Instruction Manual

To use a domain name that is not fully qualified in the TCP/IP hosts file,

you can use two records. The first record associates a local alias with a fully

qualified domain name, and the second record resolves the domain name to

an IP address. For example, you might have the following entry in a

MacTCP hosts file:

bigcomputer A 128.1.1.1

To accomplish the same effect of associating “bigcomputer” with the

address 128.1.1.1, an Open Transport hosts file needs these two records:

bigcomputer CNAME largedomain.xyzcorp.com

largedomain.xyzcorp.com A 128.1.1.1

The first record associates the alias “bigcomputer” with the fully qualified

domain name “largedomain.xyzcorp.com.” The second record resolves that

domain name to the IP address 128.1.1.1.