Tom Coady said: > > William Hooper wrote: >> Is the client you are trying to use connected to the Internet? >> fish.com is a registered and active web site. > > Yes. > >> Try using fish.coady (which will not exist on the Internet). What >> does the redirect put in your address bar? > > OK I changed .com to .coady but it still does not work for > http://192.168.0.193/webmail without the extra / even after httpd restart > - > just says _default_.com cannot be found. > > OK my fault I found another entry for servername with the _default_ name > and > changed this to coady.fish then I get the message that it is trying to > resolve www.fish.coady but this eventually fails... "coady.fish" is not the same as "www.fish.coady". Is this a typo in the mail, or did you accidently put two different things in the config file? > ...even though there is a > line > in /etc/hosts that says > > 192.168.0.193 www.fish.coady > > It's getting close though ;) > The *client* has this in /etc/hosts? Also, does the client's /etc/host.conf have hosts first (ie. "order hosts,bind")? -- William Hooper