On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:08:18 +0200 Momesso Andrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My home server is 192.168.1.5 in my home wan, the hostname of the > machine is "fandango", and the the /etc/hosts in my laptop looks like > this: > > [...] > 192.168.1.5 fandango > > Sometimes I need to connect to the server while I'm far from home, so > the server has also a dyndns address, let's say "fandango.dyndns.org". > > When I connect from outside my wan I use "fandango.dyndns.org", when > I'm at home just "fandango". > > Is there a way to tell my laptop to always use "fandango" and, > if "192.168.1.5" is available, to resolve it this way, otherwise to > resolve it as "fandango.dyndns.org". > > This way I will avoid double configurations, double password stored > in firefox, ecc... > > Any ideas? Well, when I used to switch my laptop between college (college didn't use DHCP!) and home networks, I was reduced to a script to switch configs for eth0... It sounds like all you need to do is swap out the hosts file depending on which network you are on, this shouldn't be difficult... Rob.
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