Host file for browser?

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at crschmidt.net
Thu Dec 9 12:57:00 EST 2004


On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 12:49:29PM -0500, jason wrote:
> All,
> 
> I have several boxes kobbled together along with my web server living
> happily behind my firewall. In order to get windows (IE, NETSCAP et al) to
> see the sites served up on the web server I have to adjust the hosts file in
> /WINDOWS/system32/drivers/etc/ telling the specific local IP address for a
> specific site. Is there a similar way to tell Linux (RH9) to do the same?
> (galeon, mozilla et al).

Check /etc/hosts

The naming scheme on NT based machines always amuses me: I'm pretty sure 
that /etc/ started out being a *nix thing, which MS then took up.

-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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