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Network Hosts file/DNS

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 6:35 am
by panic!
I'm on a new network and I've installed a Linux dev server at work (all Windows servers before).

and I want to do name based virtual hosting. Which is easy enough when I manually edit my /etc/hosts file on my mac so for example




somesite.dev 192.168.0.10


192.168.0.10 is the Linux server's address.

which is fine for me but I'd like a way of having a network-wide hosts file so all machines have the same hosts file (macs and windows). Is this possible? Or would I need to set up a DNS on my Linux server?

Any ideas?

Re: Network Hosts file/DNS

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 11:26 am
by andyhoneycutt
I think you may want to look into having a dns server rather than manually editing and maintaining host files for every client machine.

-Andy

Re: Network Hosts file/DNS

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 11:30 am
by andyhoneycutt
Do you have a mac server? DNS setup and maintenance is great under mac os server.

-Andy

Re: Network Hosts file/DNS

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:33 am
by josh
You can just register a domain or set up a subdomain under your companies DNS and use that