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How do I alias a hostname in windows?

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Mar 15, 2026110168 views
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Same question as How to alias a hostname? but for windows, particularly windows 7 I don't want to specify an ip address (hosts file) just an alias so that points to and all programs will be able to find it should I use that dns

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HOSTS is only for giving names to IP addresses. So you can so something like: And with that you could ping 10.1.1.2 by "computer.domain.com" "alias1" or "alias99". But you can't do To do it by host names only (I.E. the target host is on a dynamic IP…

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