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DNS and IP Woes

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  • 29-11-2006 9:04pm
    #1
    clearz
    Registered Users Posts: 885 ✭✭✭


    Hopefully someone of you guys can help me with a problem ive been trying to figure out for ages.

    I have a network setup as follows. At home I have an comp running a webserver and OpenVPN behind a router. I also have a laptop.

    My webserver has the LAN IP 192.168.1.2 and the VPN IP of 10.8.0.1

    My laptop has a LAN IP of 192.168.1.4 and a VPN IP of 10.8.0.6

    In my C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\hosts file I added the line: 192.168.1.4 webserver. I would also like to have this name pointing to 10.8.0.6 when I'm away from home.

    Is there a way to use the host name 'webserver' with both these ip's depending whether im on my LAN or using my VPN from another network.


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    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    You'll need to set up the hosts on the other machine for

    10.8.0.6 webserver


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    Kali
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,601 ✭✭✭Kali


    The first entry is the only one used in the hosts file... so multiple entries are pointless.

    I'd suggest you put together a simple batch file for copying new hosts file over (or add this to your vpn startup script).


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    ntlbell
    Registered Users Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    why not just use an internal dns server?


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