Browsing Intranet Sites
 

How do I set up firefox in Linux so that it directly goes to the relevant sites in my intranet?

Suppose I am a in www.xyz.ac.in

and I want to access abc.xyz.ac.in
In windows IF I typed abc in IE it would go automatically to the correct site. RIght now in Linux I have to do abc.xyz.ac.in .

How do I set up such behaviour in Firefox?

you add
search xyz.ac.in
to your reslov.conf file!

In addition to Nathaneal's post I've seen software firewall's, router's and gateway's/firewalls block local lan clients from accessing other boxen on lan at port 80 FWIW.

Its already there in the resolv.conf
it was put there by netconfig I guess as I gave my domain correctly.

what do you get from 'dig abc'
compared to windows 'nslookup abc'

perhaps you need to setup your netbois client and wins client correctly - though i could be really mistaken on this one!

dig abc doesn't give correct output while abc.bits-pilani.ac.in

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