Resolving Host names

Hi!

I have a Win XP Pro workstation connecting to the Inet
through a Linksys router. I have on my LAN a Linux server
that I have an web app on. I can get to the web app if I
provide the IP Address. The problem is, the IP address is
not static. The web app requires the IP address or host
name for its build. So ... I need to be able to resolve
the Linux server to a host name. In the olden days, I
could add host names and resolve their IPs in
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. This file still
exists in XP, but does not "appear" to work. This is very
crucial to me to get resolved as soon as possible. I plan
on rebuilding my app with the host name and migrating the
app to another system next week (which will most certainly
have a different IP). Your advice will be greatly
appreciated.

Hi!

I have a Win XP Pro workstation connecting to the Inet
through a Linksys router. I have on my LAN a Linux server
that I have an web app on. I can get to the web app if I
provide the IP Address. The problem is, the IP address is
not static. The web app requires the IP address or host
name for its build. So ... I need to be able to resolve
the Linux server to a host name. In the olden days, I
could add host names and resolve their IPs in
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. This file still
exists in XP, but does not "appear" to work. This is very
crucial to me to get resolved as soon as possible. I plan
on rebuilding my app with the host name and migrating the
app to another system next week (which will most certainly
have a different IP). Your advice will be greatly
appreciated.

Why not simply assign a static IP to the LINUX box that runs your web server? Your right,
dynamically assigned IP addresses make a hosts file useless.

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Al

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"David Langschied" <dlangschied@ameritech.net> wrote in message
news:012601c359ee$ddfb5370$a301280a@phx.gbl...

> Hi!
>
> I have a Win XP Pro workstation connecting to the Inet
> through a Linksys router. I have on my LAN a Linux server
> that I have an web app on. I can get to the web app if I
> provide the IP Address. The problem is, the IP address is
> not static. The web app requires the IP address or host
> name for its build. So ... I need to be able to resolve
> the Linux server to a host name. In the olden days, I
> could add host names and resolve their IPs in
> c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. This file still
> exists in XP, but does not "appear" to work. This is very
> crucial to me to get resolved as soon as possible. I plan
> on rebuilding my app with the host name and migrating the
> app to another system next week (which will most certainly
> have a different IP). Your advice will be greatly
> appreciated.
>

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