How to put a domain name on "eth0"?

[Paul Howarth]

Vinicius wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> How to put a domain name on "eth0" manually, please?
> 
> The file "/etc/hosts" shows: "127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain 
> ajax.apto317    localhost       ajax"
> 
> "ifconfig" shows "eth0" with a private address 10.X.X.X . I would like 
> this address be "ajax.apto317".

Changing your /etc/hosts file as follows will probably do what you want:

127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain localhost
10.X.X.X	ajax.apto317 ajax