From: "Nate Duehr"
> Russell McMahon wrote:
>
> > When I attempt to access the server "across the net" at
> >
> >        www.russell.servepics.com
> >
> Oh... I just realized what you might be trying to "fix"...
>
> Just add an entry in your hosts file on the machines you're trying to go
> to the NAME of www.russel.servepics.com from that points to the internal
> IP on your LAN of the server.

Another way to achive the same effect is to run a DNS server interally, and
tell it that www.russel.servepics.com is whatever ipaddress. This is a less
trivial aproach, but is more central, so easier to administer once set up.

If you use static ips on your desktop machines you can also allocate nice
names for these as well. You could also add a name for the router.

Now whenever you want to access the router you can type e.g. 'ping router'
instead of having to remember the ip address. The DNS server I use also
caches requests for internet DNS lookups so if I need the address of e.g.
www.google.com  it looks it up once (from my isp) and that lookup lasts for
a few days and it doesn't have to look it up again. If my ISP's DNS server
breaks (very likely knowing Demon), it will look it up on the internet root
servers instead.

Don't know how easy this is to achive with a windows environment
though....my server runs Linux (the only machine on the lan that does).

Cheers....Mike.



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