On Monday 10 Nov 2003 2:18 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > I have a laptop that connects to my office e-mail server as an IMAP client. > Sometimes I am outside the firewall, and in this case, I can connect to the > server using the server's fqdn. When I am inside the firewall, I can > connect to the server by making an entry in my /etc/hosts file for it that > aliases it's private ip to it's netbios name (it is an Exchange 5.5 > server). In order to connect, I simply change the servername in kmail > depending on where I am. > > So now my question, is there any way to set up my hosts/resolv.conf/tmdns > to look for the server in the local network first and if it cannot find it > to look it up in the DNS so that I don't have to constantly change the > setup in kmail? > > Since the local addressing scheme in place at my company is quite unique I > would even be open to doing something like having a script called in > rc.local check to see what the network ip block of the local network is and > writing out a hosts file that would have an entry for the server if I am on > the right network, although I have no idea how to actually implement that.
You mean something like: cp /etc/hosts.base /etc/hosts if (/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep 192.168.7>/dev/null) then cat /etc/hosts.extra >> /etc/hosts fi (test it first, of course) HTH -- Richard Urwin
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