[Gllug] Internal addressing??

[John Edwards]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 02:36:11PM +0000, James Holland wrote:
> I've just set up a server with Squirrel Mail and Roundcube (which looks
> nicer!) and have pointed dns at it, say: ajax.example.com
> 
> Works great externally, but when I enter ajax.example.com into Firefox
> internally it wont work. To get around it I've put the address into the
> hosts file in each XP/Vista machine but this seems rather inelegant.
> 
> Any pointers in the right direction?

How often does your DNS provider update their zone files?
Some do not allow live changes, and schedule them at certain
times, so you may have to wait a few hours.

And hacking host files on Windows workstations is a recipe for
future nightmares, especially if someone else takes over your job.


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