On Sunday 21 September 2008 15:08:18 Momesso Andrea wrote: > My home server is 192.168.1.5 in my home wan, the hostname of the machine > is "fandango", and the the /etc/hosts in my laptop looks like this: > > [...] > 192.168.1.5 fandango > > Sometimes I need to connect to the server while I'm far from home, so the > server has also a dyndns address, let's say "fandango.dyndns.org". > > When I connect from outside my wan I use "fandango.dyndns.org", when I'm at > home just "fandango". > > Is there a way to tell my laptop to always use "fandango" and, > if "192.168.1.5" is available, to resolve it this way, otherwise to resolve > it as "fandango.dyndns.org". > > This way I will avoid double configurations, double password stored in > firefox, ecc...
I'm sure you can get very complex solutions to this, but have you tried something as simple as "search dyndns.org" in resolv.conf? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com