Originally posted by nkuvu
Oh contrariness, Scummer.
It really depends on how the host is set up. For example, way back in the ol' college days I had an email account username@blah.blah.blah.edu. My login was username and the hostname was blah.blah.blah.edu. So I was able to ssh username@blah.blah.blah.edu right in.
Not that I think all setups are like that, but they can be.
Most companies today set up their domain name to resolve to the IP of their webserver. Bendcable did not as i just tested... but it should be some computer in their company network that is not reserved for users.
If he wants to find out, what his hostname is, he should just open a terminal and type in 'ifconfig -a' and take the IP which is assigned to the network card and then type in 'host "assigned IP"'
Now with the hostname or ip address you can connect from any other computer to your own machine.
Thomas
PS : The naming of the bendcable hostnames are as follows:
bash-2.05a$ host -l bendcable.com
bendcable.com has address 216.228.188.11
bendcable.com name server tumalo.bendcable.net
bendcable.com name server sisters.bendcable.net
12101.bendcable.com has address 192.168.12.101
12145.bendcable.com has address 192.168.12.145
12146.bendcable.com has address 192.168.12.146
abc.bendcable.com has address 208.139.26.244
admiral.bendcable.com has address 216.228.188.11
adv1811.bendcable.com has address 10.20.18.11
air1820.bendcable.com has address 10.20.18.20
amr1645.bendcable.com has address 10.10.16.45
as5300.bendcable.com has address 216.228.160.20
back2948g.bendcable.com has address 192.168.18.3
back2948gnew.bendcable.com has address 192.168.18.23
bc1001.bendcable.com has address 66.220.100.1
bc10010.bendcable.com has address 66.220.100.10
bc100100.bendcable.com has address 66.220.100.100
bc100101.bendcable.com has address 66.220.100.101
bc100102.bendcable.com has address 66.220.100.102
etc etc etc etc
Thomas