True enough. I have this same problem when connecting to certain devices through a reverse-proxy in my firewall.
I'll type: http://x.x.x.x:pp/foo and the reverse-proxy will connect to: http://192.168.1.10:80/foo ... and normally this works. Some devices try to be clever, however, and hand you back something other than the hostname and port number that you gave in the request... which might not be reachable from outside the local network. David Kerr wrote: > The problem is the way that the altweb interface redirects to itself. > Rather than use the IP address/name that you type into the browser, it > substitutes its DNS name... which is configured as "pbx" in the > AStLinux config. > > Therefore you have to do one of three things... either hard code "pbx" > to equal the IP address of your device in the "hosts" file of every > client, or you have to add the domain to the DNS search list in every > client (in Windows this is in Advanced IP settings for the connection > ("Append these DNS suffixes" to which I add xxxxx.dyndns.org > <http://xxxxx.dyndns.org>). Or you have to make your AstLinux box the > DNS server for every client. > > None of these are ideal and personally, I don't like the way altweb > does it. It should capture the IP name/address from the URL as typed > by the user into the web browser and not substitute what is a hard > coded name in the AstLinux setup. > > David > > On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 8:37 AM, John Novack > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > wrote: > > > > Darrick Hartman (lists) wrote: > <snip> > > I really like the way that Lonnie's "alternative" gui has > progressed and would like the other developers (and users) > thoughts about using his gui as the primary gui for the project. > Lonnie has better php-foo than the other developers and has > created a gui which maintains almost all (if not all) of the > functionality of the original gui with some added features which I > find useful. > > > > Thoughts? > > > I really like the alternate, but had one problem some time ago and > have > been really busy with many other projects, from fostering a Yorkie to > retrieving an almost antique Stromberg-Carlson E-120 PBX and will have > to revisit it. > Simply put, if I point my browser to https:// < ip address > on my > LAN, > it errors out saying it can't find "pbx". > I asked about this before, but got distracted, so I will have to > revisit . > Other than that problem, all seemed to work well and made > configurations > really easy for those of us who aren't really deeply into the nuts and > bolts. > > Many thanks for all the wonderful work on this project. > > John Novack > > -- > Dog is my co-pilot > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
