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Topic: resolving domain name from inside LAN?

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Post #1
thinksInCode
31 Jul 2007, 15:25

Hi all,

I'm running Kamikaze, loving it, but I have a question. I have a dynamic DNS hostname for my router (of the form myhost.dyndns.org), and can access it from outside my LAN (at work, etc) without problems. But when I am on my LAN, I'm not able to resolve the domain name at all. Is there something I can do to enable this?

I remember from an old router I used to have it had an option "ip nat loopback" that accomplished this. Any idea how to do the same thing in Kamikaze?

Thanks a lot!

Post #2
exobyte
1 Aug 2007, 00:25

If you haven't played with dnsmasq too much, add this to /etc/hosts

<LanIpAddress> myhost.dyndns.org

replacing LanIpAddress with 127.0.0.1 might work, too.

(Last edited by exobyte on 1 Aug 2007, 00:26)

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