Quick techie question
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I'm getting set up to work from home, and it seems that I am to access internal servers through something called port forwarding using CRT. Now, I've got it all set up so that the local ports 81-85 or so each map to a different internal server at work (intranet, bugzilla, phonebook, extranettest, etc.). However, I tried to use hosts file tricks to turn these ugly URLs that I now have to type like http://127.0.0.1:81 into nice things like http://bugzilla. But it didn't work, giving me a page not found error! What am I missing? Is there a way to use the hosts file to map to different ports, or perhaps some other file or something I can do to make server name aliases for my local ports? Thanks in advance...
-Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337] MadHamster Creations "I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change..."
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I'm getting set up to work from home, and it seems that I am to access internal servers through something called port forwarding using CRT. Now, I've got it all set up so that the local ports 81-85 or so each map to a different internal server at work (intranet, bugzilla, phonebook, extranettest, etc.). However, I tried to use hosts file tricks to turn these ugly URLs that I now have to type like http://127.0.0.1:81 into nice things like http://bugzilla. But it didn't work, giving me a page not found error! What am I missing? Is there a way to use the hosts file to map to different ports, or perhaps some other file or something I can do to make server name aliases for my local ports? Thanks in advance...
-Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337] MadHamster Creations "I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change..."
Domenic [_Geek_n] wrote: I now have to type like http://127.0.0.1:81 into nice things like http://bugzilla. But it didn't work, giving me a page not found error They are making computing too easy now, "Front panel booting should be revived !" Domenic[Geek] don't you realise it is far kewler to manually enter stuff, especially when folk don't know what you are doing. There is not much in computing as satisfying as having people behind you say "wadda he do" or "what is this" or "Gosh, do you know this thing". Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
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Domenic [_Geek_n] wrote: I now have to type like http://127.0.0.1:81 into nice things like http://bugzilla. But it didn't work, giving me a page not found error They are making computing too easy now, "Front panel booting should be revived !" Domenic[Geek] don't you realise it is far kewler to manually enter stuff, especially when folk don't know what you are doing. There is not much in computing as satisfying as having people behind you say "wadda he do" or "what is this" or "Gosh, do you know this thing". Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
More about me :-)
:cool: True. But there's a lot of internal links on these sites that point to http://phonebook or whatever, and it'd be nice to have them work. But whatever. Colin Davies wrote: Domenic[Geek] You left out the "to the nth power!" :(( :laugh:
-Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337] MadHamster Creations "I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change..."
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Domenic [_Geek_n] wrote: I now have to type like http://127.0.0.1:81 into nice things like http://bugzilla. But it didn't work, giving me a page not found error They are making computing too easy now, "Front panel booting should be revived !" Domenic[Geek] don't you realise it is far kewler to manually enter stuff, especially when folk don't know what you are doing. There is not much in computing as satisfying as having people behind you say "wadda he do" or "what is this" or "Gosh, do you know this thing". Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
More about me :-)
Colin Davies wrote: There is not much in computing as satisfying as having people behind you say "wadda he do" That's why when annoying people ask me to fix stupid things on their machines and they stand behind me while I do it, I only use keyboard shortcuts. It confuses the hell out of them. "You don't have to be a political scientist or a history major to see the 'bigger dick foreign policy' at work. It goes something like this: 'What?! They have bigger dicks? Bomb them!' And of course the bombs and the bullets and the rockets are all shaped like dicks. I don't understand that part of it, but it is part of the equation." -George Carlin