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What Is /etc/hosts File and How To Create and Edit It?

New comers to the Linux generally asks for what is the purpose and usage of the /etc/hosts file. /etc directory holds

We can determine Linux system IP address in different ways. IP address is used to communicate over network and can

Hostname is used to identify the given Linux host. We generally prefer to put related hostnames to the systems like

Host name is used to identify the systems like hosts, clients, servers etc. Host name provides human readable easy names

Windows operating system provides some basic tools to troubleshoot network. tracert is one of the most used tool. tracertcommand simply trace

While working with Bash environment we generally need some variable data to set and get. Bash shell provides some default

Kali is a Linux distribution or it is a security and penetration test distribution. It is beyond a Linux distribution

Host name is the identifier of a system in the network. Host name can be get with different ways in