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On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:08:18 +0200 |
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Momesso Andrea <momesso.andrea@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> My home server is 192.168.1.5 in my home wan, the hostname of the |
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> machine is "fandango", and the the /etc/hosts in my laptop looks like |
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> this: |
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> [...] |
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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 |
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> the 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 |
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> I'm at 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 |
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> resolve it as "fandango.dyndns.org". |
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> This way I will avoid double configurations, double password stored |
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> in firefox, ecc... |
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> Any ideas? |
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Well, when I used to switch my laptop between college (college didn't |
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use DHCP!) and home networks, I was reduced to a script to switch |
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configs for eth0... |
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It sounds like all you need to do is swap out the hosts file depending |
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on which network you are on, this shouldn't be difficult... |
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Rob. |
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