>On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 10:54, Bob Brennan wrote:
>> The server is static IP = 10.0.010 and is the only Linux machine, all
>> others on the LAN are Windoze DHCP addressed. The router has a
>> real-world static IP from my ISP. I have a NAT entry in the router to
>> send all port 80 traffic to 10.0.0.10
>>
>> >Try putting the
>> >inside number in an entry for the server name in /etc/hosts
>> >on a test client machine.
>>
>> All clients are different flavors of Windoze, so no can do(?)
>
>Windows have an equivalent. On Win2K it is hidden at
>\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
>and you should be able to find it with a search on other flavors.
>
>> >If that works and you only have
>> >a small number of inside clients you can copy the hosts file
>> >around. If you have enough machines to make this impractical
>> >then you need to work with DNS. There is an alternative to
>> >views there as well unless you have to use the same DNS server
>> >for internal and external users.
>>
>> The DNS server for all machines is the ISP's (at the moment)
>
>That means you can either add your own local DNS server set
>up with local addresses, leaving the public service up to
>the ISP or adjust everyone's host file. If there are more
>than a few clients, maintaining distributed hosts files
>can be painful.
Copying around a hosts file that contains the domain names does the trick - and I'll be looking into setting up a local DNS server as a proper fix.
Many thanks to Les Mikesell and Steve Fink for these sugesstions
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Bob Brennan
Synapse Solutions Ltd
