On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 08:51:03 -0800, Rich Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My spouse has, at her workplace, a Mac OS X machine with web sharing > turned on. This machine is, therefore, reachable on the internal > company LAN as either http://catnip.local or http://catnip.company.com > > When she works from home, she accesses the company network via VPN. > The machine is still accessible as http://catnip.company.com. > > Unfortunately, many of the links automatically convert too URLs > beginning catnip.local. Via VPN (the way she does it), there is > no catnip.local. > > Does anyone know where this redirection to catnip.local is stored and > whether (how) she can make it stop? >
Rich, This isn't really a perl question--probably. Does catnip have an assigned static ip? it probably does. If so, you can just add a line to /etc/hosts with the ip: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx catnip.local That will redirect all requests for catnip.local to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. That's if she's runninf some form of Panther. If she still uses Jaguar, you may need to do a little mucking about with netinfo and /machines to get things to work right. Jaguar had a braindamaged lookupd. where the perl will cmoe in is if catnip has a dynamic ip, in which case you'll need to update it automatically. HTH, --jay
