[GRLUG] hostnames etc

[Benjamin Flanders]

What I did, was create a static route in the router and then added
that to the hosts file of each machine I wanted to access with
http://server.  Simple and it works but I'd like to try to understand
the other replies because my way seems like a kludge
Share and Enjoy
Ben


On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Justin Denick <jdenick at rtl.org> wrote:
> Does the DNS server permit client updates. If so, tell Sheldon to do that.
>
> Tell the DNS server to tell the clients to search the domain.
>
> Tell plesk to listen on all or the privately accessible inet. If this is
> really an apache app, I'm not familiar with plesk. You may have to use name
> based virtual hosting. To bind plesk to a host and not an ip.
>
> -j
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> On Mar 23, 2014, at 12:58 PM, Topher <topher at codeventure.net> wrote:
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> On 03/23/2014 12:48 PM, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
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> On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 11:38:50AM -0400, Topher wrote:
>
> My desktop's hostname is sheldon.  I'm running Plex on it, so locally I
>
> can access that with http://localhost:32400/web
>
>
> I'd like to be able to access it from other machines in my house, on my
>
> network, at http://sheldon:32400/web/
>
> Do you need to use a hostname (sheldon) rather than the IP address?
>
>
> Only for convenience.  I don't want my wife to have to remember the IP.
>
> What do I need to do to make that happen?  Is that in the router?
>
>
> Sheldon also has 2 IP addresses, because it's on 2 networks.  I'd like
>
> it to work no matter which network my other device is on.
>
> I did nothing to make it happen on my Plex server and I can access it
>
> remotely. Then again, my server only has one address.
>
>
> I can access it fine on both networks, I only mentioned it in case it
> had an impact on the name resolution.
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