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Talk to yourself with local networking

Talk to yourself with local networking

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Talk to yourself with local networking

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- [Instructor] We've got a fully functional operating system with some base software, but how are we going to connect with it for configuration? Sometimes it's easiest just to sit down and have good chat with yourself to work out a problem. Sounds silly doesn't it? Well, there's a practical reason for it. You listen to yourself faster and better than anyone else. Internet networking is remarkably similar to that. In this chapter we're going to learn how to remotely manage the server from the command line. By the end of the chapter we'll be navigating and administering the sever over the local network. Back in chapter one we discussed a number of networking fundamentals including hostnames which map to a specific IP address. There's a special host name Localhost, which is a really fancy way of saying this computer. The computer you're currently on is your localhost. When you connect to local host you're accessing your own network services via loopback which just routes traffic back to…

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