domain names in lan?

[Kaido]

is there a way to tie IPs to domain names on a lan? I'm running an in-house apache server at the moment and I don't want people to have to type in the IP. Any tricks for that?

 

[TXJustin]

Assuming you are running your own DNS server, just add the record. If you are not, it's a pain, but you can customize the hosts file on each workstation.

 

[wkinney]

if its a windows box running apache you can just type in the computer name, http://<name>/,
if it is a linux box, and assuming you have a DNS server for your network, you could add a dns record for that box, e.g. webserver.mycomp.com
which would point to it's internal ip address (192.168.x.x), of course this dns server would be inside the dmz

 

[vi edit]

Windows machines I'm assuming?

You can modify the host file to point the netbios name to the IP address. In IE you'd just plug in the NB computer name into the address bar and it will pull up the webpage that is running on that machine.

host file can be found at:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc (or whatever the drive letter your OS is installed at)

Open it with notepad and add this at the bottom of the page under the localhost line:

XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX computername

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: wkinney
if its a windows box running apache you can just type in the computer name, http://<name>/,
if it is a linux box, and assuming you have a DNS server for your network, you could add a dns record for that box, e.g. webserver.mycomp.com
which would point to it's internal ip address (192.168.x.x), of course this dns server would be inside the dmz

cha-ching! thank you!