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On Sunday 21 September 2008 15:08:18 Momesso Andrea wrote: |
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> My home server is 192.168.1.5 in my home wan, the hostname of the machine |
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> is "fandango", and the the /etc/hosts in my laptop looks like this: |
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> 192.168.1.5 fandango |
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> Sometimes I need to connect to the server while I'm far from home, so the |
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> server has also a dyndns address, let's say "fandango.dyndns.org". |
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> When I connect from outside my wan I use "fandango.dyndns.org", when I'm at |
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> home just "fandango". |
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> Is there a way to tell my laptop to always use "fandango" and, |
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> if "192.168.1.5" is available, to resolve it this way, otherwise to resolve |
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> it as "fandango.dyndns.org". |
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> This way I will avoid double configurations, double password stored in |
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> firefox, ecc... |
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I'm sure you can get very complex solutions to this, but have you tried |
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something as simple as "search dyndns.org" in resolv.conf? |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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