unable to resolve aliased network interface name

Hello all and sorry for my poor english knowledge.
an old network application being ported from Digital Unix 4.0F to
Linux (kernel 2.4.7) needs resolving all the interfaces names (eth0,
eth1), including aliased interfaces names like eth0:0, according to
/etc/hosts, e.g.:

10.10.10.10 eth0 my:test host1010
10.10.11.11 eth0:0 host1111

The issue (unknown host) arise when resolving the name 'eth0:0' and
not when resolving 'my:test', from which I only argue that the problem
is not in ':' symbol, it is in all names starting with 'eth0:'.

I will appreciate if anyone has a solution that doesn't involve
changing application sources.

TIA

On 2004-11-03, ziupiu <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> eth1), including aliased interfaces names like eth0:0, according to
> /etc/hosts, e.g.:
>
> 10.10.10.10 eth0 my:test host1010
> 10.10.11.11 eth0:0 host1111

AFAIK the first alias for an interface is 1 not 0, so you have eth0:1,
not eth0:0, and /etc/hosts does not contains indication of the
interface, only IP and names.

man hosts

Davide

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Davide Bianchi <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> On 2004-11-03, ziupiu <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > eth1), including aliased interfaces names like eth0:0, according to
> > /etc/hosts, e.g.:
> >
> > 10.10.10.10 eth0 my:test host1010
> > 10.10.11.11 eth0:0 host1111
>
> AFAIK the first alias for an interface is 1 not 0, so you have eth0:1,

You do not know far enough here .. it is "0".

> not eth0:0, and /etc/hosts does not contains indication of the
> interface, only IP and names.

Sure. That's correct. His hosts file is AFU.

Peter

(E-Mail Removed) (Peter T. Breuer) wrote in message news:<c9sn52-(E-Mail Removed)>...
> Davide Bianchi <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > On 2004-11-03, ziupiu <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > > eth1), including aliased interfaces names like eth0:0, according to
> > > /etc/hosts, e.g.:
> > >
> > > 10.10.10.10 eth0 my:test host1010
> > > 10.10.11.11 eth0:0 host1111
> >
> > AFAIK the first alias for an interface is 1 not 0, so you have eth0:1,
>
> You do not know far enough here .. it is "0".
>
> > not eth0:0, and /etc/hosts does not contains indication of the
> > interface, only IP and names.
>
> Sure. That's correct. His hosts file is AFU.
>
> Peter

Thanks for replies.
I know my /etc/hosts may seem AFU, the issue here is only with that
old application; this needs resolving interface names (no problem),
including aliased ones (THE problem).