Hi,

i am new to dns server configuration on linux so i have a little problem with my lan application..

i am working with SUSE SLE distribution 10.2 and 11
i have a lan application say CRS at my server ip say 10.0.0.1
what i am doing now is accessing my lan application by typing
10.0.0.1/CRS on browser and what i want is to run it with a domain name locally on my lan say "myapp/CRS " on my browser

can i have some help here ...anyone ...thnx in advance.

Hello,

The easiest way to do that is to edit the file /etc/hosts in the client computer (the computer you're using to access your app) and add
Regards

make a entry in hosts
vi /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
xx.xx.xx.xx mail.mailers.in mail
~

nice suggestion guys but the thing is i already made this entry in /etc/hosts but still when i try to access it from my lan as myapp/crs....it redirects to the search engine ...

What browser are you using?
AFAIK IE does this, while Firefox does not care. Anyway you can write http://myapp/crs (add the http://) in your browser address bar and see what you get

Regards

I am using Suse linux Enterprise server 10.2 and suse linux enterprise desktops having firefox as a default browser and the baove said problem is coming in firefox ...what actually i want to rectify...

It should work.
Are you sure that host myapp resolves to the correct IP? Check with:
that you get a response from 10.0.0.1

Hi
disable any proxy setting u have in firefox i thing so change it to no proxy setting and try once again

yes its pinging....
well i some how managed to do that..
but still i have a question can there be a way so that i dont have to add hosts on my lan individually ...i mean it will automatically take the DNS information through server ....

admin may mark this post as SOLVED.

kindly also consider answering my above question.

Hi,

Glad to see it's working now. You should give more details about what have you done to make it work.
For this you indeed need to setup a dns server, but you also need to use a domain name (eg. .local) and make sure your clients are using that dns for name resolution. In this case your box will be called myapp.local and adding in the /etc/resolv.conf of clients the following
will allow them to resolve both myapp.local and plain myapp hostnames.
Since you're running Suse this could be of help

You should mark the thread SOLVED using the "Thread Tools" on top of the page

Regards

thnx Bathory you helped a lot....it solves my prob....