Re: [expert] /etc/hosts and dns - THANK YOU

2003-11-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 16 Nov 2003 1:46 am, Greg Meyer wrote: Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction, For posterity's sake here is what I have done. Greg, I would say that should *definitely* be on the TWiki - would you oblige? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited

Re: [expert] /etc/hosts and dns - THANK YOU

2003-11-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 09:07, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 16 Nov 2003 1:46 am, Greg Meyer wrote: Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction, For posterity's sake here is what I have done. Greg, I would say that should *definitely* be on the TWiki - would you oblige? Anne

Re: [expert] /etc/hosts and dns - THANK YOU

2003-11-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 10 November 2003 02:10 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Monday 10 Nov 2003 2:18 am, Greg Meyer wrote: I have a laptop that connects to my office e-mail server as an IMAP client. Sometimes I am outside the firewall, and in this case, I can connect to the server using the server's fqdn.

Re: [expert] /etc/hosts and dns

2003-11-10 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 10 Nov 2003 2:18 am, Greg Meyer wrote: I have a laptop that connects to my office e-mail server as an IMAP client. Sometimes I am outside the firewall, and in this case, I can connect to the server using the server's fqdn. When I am inside the firewall, I can connect to the server

Re: [expert] /etc/hosts and dns

2003-11-10 Thread Kwan Lowe
I have a laptop that connects to my office e-mail server as an IMAP client. Sometimes I am outside the firewall, and in this case, I can connect to the server using the server's fqdn. When I am inside the firewall, I can connect to the server by making an entry in my /etc/hosts file for it

Re: [expert] /etc/hosts and dns

2003-11-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 10 November 2003 02:10 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: Since the local addressing scheme in place at my company is quite unique I would even be open to doing something like having a script called in rc.local check to see what the network ip block of the local network is and writing out

[expert] /etc/hosts and dns

2003-11-09 Thread Greg Meyer
I have a laptop that connects to my office e-mail server as an IMAP client. Sometimes I am outside the firewall, and in this case, I can connect to the server using the server's fqdn. When I am inside the firewall, I can connect to the server by making an entry in my /etc/hosts file for it

Re: [expert] /etc/hosts and dns

2003-11-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:18 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: So now my question, is there any way to set up my hosts/resolv.conf/tmdns to look for the server in the local network first and if it cannot find it to look it up in the DNS so that I don't have to constantly change the setup in kmail? I

Re: [expert] /etc/hosts and dns

2003-11-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 09 November 2003 11:26 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:18 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: So now my question, is there any way to set up my hosts/resolv.conf/tmdns to look for the server in the local network first and if it cannot find it to look it up in the DNS so