Grass Valley Aurora Browse v.7.0 Installation - Manual (Page 31)

April 6, 2010 Aurora Browse Installation and Configuration Guide 31
About hosts files
About hosts files
The hosts file is used by the control network and the streaming/FTP network for name
resolution, which determines the IP address of a device on the network when only the
device name (hostname) is given. The hosts file is located at
C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on Windows XP and
Windows 2003 Server operating system computers. The hosts file must be the same
on all network devices. It includes the names and addresses of all the devices on the
network.
For FTP transfers on a K2 SAN, transfers go to or from K2 Media Servers that have
the role of FTP server. No transfers go directly to/from the shared storage K2 clients
that are on the K2 SAN. To support FTP transfers, in the hosts file the K2 Media
Server hostname must have the _he0 extension added at the end of the name and that
hostname must be associated with the K2 Media Server’s FTP/streaming network IP
address.
Here is an example of IP addresses and names associated in a hosts file:
#-----------------------------------------------------
#General Host Table
#-----------------------------------------------------
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.100.10 root-mf-svr
192.168.101.10 root-mf-svr_he0
192.168.100.11 root-mf-mdi
192.168.101.11 root-mf-mdi_he0
192.168.100.20 root-mf-adv-1
192.168.101.20 root-mf-adv-1_he0
192.168.100.21 root-mf-adv-2
192.168.101.21 root-mf-adv-2_he0
192.168.100.30 root-mf-nas-1
In this example 192.168.100.xx is the control network and 192.168.101.xx is the
streaming/FTP network. Each MediaFrame and MDI server has its hostname
associated with its control network IP address. In addition, each Encoder that needs
to transfer media over the streaming/FTP network has its _he0 hostname associated
with its streaming/FTP network address.