How to create an alias for linux server name?
- by Radek
The openSUSE server name is 'darkhelmet'. I want to create an alias 'dh' for it. So I can also type 'ssh dh' and 'http://dh' would work too.
What file/files and where do I have to edit to make this happen?
Extract from /etc/hosts from darkhelmet 
127.0.0.1       localhost
# special IPv6 addresses
::1             localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback
fe00::0         ipv6-localnet
ff00::0         ipv6-mcastprefix
ff02::1         ipv6-allnodes
ff02::2         ipv6-allrouters
ff02::3         ipv6-allhosts
127.0.0.2       darkhelmet.edumate darkhelmet
10.0.0.22       db2workgroup db2workgroup
[root][skroob] nslookup darkhelmet
Server:     10.0.0.10
Address:    10.0.0.10#53
Name:   darkhelmet.edumate
Address: 10.0.0.22