Re: internal lan configuration and web address issues

[John Schmidt <jaschmidt@sisna.com>]

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