On Monday 08 November 2004 12:47 pm, Terry Jones graced us with these words:
- Why don't the internal machines simply go
straight to 192.168.1.10?
I just resolved the same problem on my network, but I'm not sure what the
repercussions will be yet. Internal machines *were* just going straight to
the server on the LAN, but using their LAN host names and/or IP, which
confused the scripts, which were looking for the hostname the webserver
reports to the external world. I only need to connect to the server from the
same machine that hosts it, not others on the LAN, so I just aliased the
external gateway hostname to the internal IP in /etc/hosts. Now mediawiki
(and movable type, which had the same problem) works equally well from that
machine or outside. Don't know if this breaks anything else. My ability to
ping the external interface and check DNS status is gone for that machine, I
suppose.
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John M. Norvell