Trying to find a solution to a problem. I have a small home network that uses a server, firewall, desktop and laptop. The firewall provides DHCP services also. The server pulls down mail from an account every 2 minutes and provides webmail, IMAP and SMTP services. There is a dynamic DNS entry pointing towards my public IP and the firewall forwards requests on certain ports to the internal server.
Here's my problem: I'd like to setup IMAP mail on my laptop resolving to the dynamic DNS name so that I do not have to keep reconfiguring the mail client. Outside the network this works fine, but when I am on my network, the DNS resolves (obviously) to the firewall. I took a look at dnsmasq to see if this could solve the problem, but the dnsmasq man page says that "It loads the contents of /etc/hosts into the cache at startup so that local host names which do not appear in the global DNS can be resolved." This would seem to suggest that a local lookup happens after a global lookup. Perhaps I did not set this up correctly, but that was the result I was getting too. Does anyone have a solution to being able to have my laptop resolve a DNS name to one address when attached inside the network and another off net, without installing a full DNS server?? Many thanks. Iain. _________________________________ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.maltamonster.com/ Yahoo! Messenger: expat_iain
