If you use Secure Shell to log into remote Linux servers throughout the day, you should consider using a config file to make your life easier. Here's how.

You could put the name in your /etc/hosts file, or you could set up a local DNS server, but you can also solve this problem using ssh's config file. To create an ssh config file execute the commands: ...

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