hello people

i hope you can please help me.

i have a server and several ip-addresses pointing to it.

now i want
a) that the server can be reached on all ip adresses from the internet
b) that i can access the internet from the server and decide which IP-address is being used ( i can specify "bind-ip-adress" in my application )

my /etc/networks file looks like this:

Code:

default         0.0.0.0
loopback        127.0.0.0
link-local      169.254.0.0
localnet        209.23.47.0

and my /etc/hosts file looks like this:

Code:

127.0.0.1       localhost
209.23.47.52   new.box.net.box.net     new.box.net

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

can i simply add the additional ip-addresses to these 2 files or do i have to setup "virtual interfaces" to accomplish my goal?

i am a newbie and researched in google as much as i could, but i would be really happy if you please could point me the right way.

thanks a lot