view local webserver from xp clients by not using ip??

[tr1pl3x]

Gud day guys.. Im a linux newbie and I'm some sort of creating an Internal webserver or Intranet for short locally. My local webserver ip address is 192.168.0.1 and when im trying to view this on my xp clients i will type it in the url 192.168.0.1. What im trying to do is view my webserver instead of typing ipaddress I'll type hmij.edu.ph for example and trying to resolve it locally through local dns resolution.. so every time i type for example. my webserver name hmij.edu.ph i want it to redirect it to my local webserver w/out going to the internet first.. I already setup dnsmasq for dhcp and dnsclient resolution. is there any better way on how i can achieved this??im a little bit of confused on how to make this work. tnx in advance!

Sorry for my bad english

[kurtdriver]

Hi, this is your home network? You wish to access it from the outside world, is this correct? If so you'll need a domain name, and either a web hosting company to host it on their machinery or you can host it on your own computer. Having someone else is usually quite inexpensive, and you still have an account on their machine allowing you to administer the site.
Doing it yourself, if your ISP permits it, (some contracts don't) is free and not that difficult.
Is this what you wish to do, or is it something else?

[tr1pl3x]

actually its not from outside world. i want to view it locally. i already setup a webserver which is availble both from inside and outside.. what im trying to do here is i want to type in my xp clients hmij.edu.ph instead of typing 192.168.0.1 is there any possible way on how can i do this??. i've tried setting up dnsmasq and also tried editing my resolv.conf and hosts file for this in order to redirect the clients locally resolving my address which is hmij.edu.ph instead of 192.168.0.1. i havent registered for dns resolution online.. what i want is, is there anyway how can i make local dns resolution?? i just wanted to resolve the local webserver address w/c is 192.168.0.1 to hmij.edu.ph.

tnx for the reply

[smr54]

You can edit XP's hosts file. I forget where it's stored, someplace unexpected, like system32/drivers/etc or something similar. I'm sure there are better ways to do it. The file might be called LMHOSTS or something like that. My memory is hazy, you may have to choose to show file extensions and save the file without a sam (as in sample) extension.

I'm assuming this isn't an active directory network? If it is, just set the name in AD.

[aks]

tr1pl3x:
There are two approaches to the solution, and are enlisted below:
Solution 1
On each windows machines, point hmij.edu.ph to 192.168.0.1 by putting an entry in the %systemroot%/systemm32/drivers/etc/hosts file, e.g.

192.168.0.1               hmij.edu.ph

The problem with this approach is that you'll have to make this entry on each client you want this feature. Also if that the IP of the server, you need to update the client configuration on each machine to reflect the new settings.

Solution 2
If you've configured dhcp and caching/local dns server on your server machine that your clients would be using, you can add an entry to your bind configuration for hmij.edu.ph, and point it to 192.168.0.1 in the zone file. So when the clients query the dns server (i.e your machine), it will return 192.168.0.1 as the query reply. The problem with this approach is that you'll have to configure bind for this and take some while. Also that it'll always return the private IP despite that there might be some other IP for that name.

Hope this helps you.

[tr1pl3x]

tnx for the reply.. It helps me alot.. I already did the solution 1 but it seems to me that its defiicult to implement due to many computer clients.. it will give me a harder time on configuring the hosts file of each clients.. I really prefer solution 2 w/c will help me alot.. tnx for the info.. GOD BLESS U.!