How to use aliases for remote hosts when accessing locally

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Published on 2010-06-01T18:46:24Z Indexed on 2010/06/01 18:56 UTC
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I would like to use an alias for a remote host. For example, when instead of "ping giraffe.foo.bar.com" I want to do "ping giraffe", but only when I do it from my own machine. I am able to do this for raw IP addresses by adding an entry in /etc/hosts (ie "123.456.1.0 giraffe"), but it does not seem to work for host names.

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