Managing Hosts - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 4 System Administration Manual

Chapter 17. Network Configuration
Figure 17.14. DNS Configuration
Note
The name servers section does not configure the system to be a name server. Instead,
it configures which name servers to use when resolving IP addresses to hostnames and
vice-versa.
Warning
If the hostname is changed and system-config-network is started on the local host,
you may not be able to start another X11 application. As such, you may have to re-login to
a new desktop session.

17.9. Managing Hosts

The Hosts tab allows you to add, edit, or remove hosts from the /etc/hosts file. This file contains IP
addresses and their corresponding hostnames.
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