Hi,

Amazon gives us a very long dns names i.e. c-123-123-123-255.compute-1.amazonaws.com Is there a way to map this name into a shorter name

i.e. essentially what i want to do is to modify /etc/hosts file, and map the long name into a short one, i.e. aws1 c-123-123-123-255.compute-1.amazonaws.com

but because /etc/hosts file only accepts ip address mapping, then I cannot do that.

Is there any other way to do this?

Thanks