On Friday 16 March 2007 14:18, John Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > I have a home DSL connection with a static IP assigned. The DSL modem is > fed into one a ipcop firewall with port forwarding for port 25 and 80 > directed to my webserver/mailserver in my DMZ zone. Machines in the green > zone of my LAN cannot access my registered domain name, i.e. www.domain.org > instead it returns the web interface to my DSL modem. Specifying the > 192.168.1.100 gets me to my webserver. Outside of my LAN, accessing my > registered hostname returns me to my webserver and not my DSL modem. > > > I tried editing my /etc/hosts file to specify the 192.168.1.100 for the > registered hostname, but it instead returns the registered IP address when > I ping my hostname or use lynx to access it from an internal LAN machine.
I had mistyped my registered hostname in the /etc/hosts file. The correct entry allows my internal lan machines to access the webserver. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

