ed
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Is it possible to setup some custom domain names for use on my LAN? I've got quite a bit of stuff to remember now so it would be useful if I could get to things in my web browser using something like this: http://www.internal.lan/
Can it be done without messing about too much?
[Edited on 09-01-2011 by ed]
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Kyle T
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System
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Brett
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Edit the hosts file?
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pow
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Unless you are running a DNS server that you can add new A records in, the answer is no, unless you edit the hosts file like loafofbread said.
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Ian
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Need the same hosts file on all machines. Probably could bodge something up to replicate it from a share on startup or something. Not sure if you can write if it's a protected file.
Or run your own DNS server.
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pow
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Why don't you just make a webpage will links for everything on, it's something I do at places I work so I don't have to remember loads of IP addresses 
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Ian
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Because it might not all be HTTP and then you need to have all the browsers on all the clients configured to handle all the other services.
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ed
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Could just do a web page actually. Most the stuff is HTTPS and there are a couple of HTTP things, could stick it on my Google Apps homepage come to think of it
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pow
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Very rare that any web based configurations are anything BUT HTTP or HTTPS.
Ed, I'd stick it internally if I was you!
[Edited on 10-01-2011 by pow]
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ed
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Red faced moment. Forgot that you don't need a web server for an HTML file. Got PHP on the brain 
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Dom
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host file, copy it to all machines, takes 30secs - this is what i do with my dev systems.
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