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Why is this single-word address being resolved? [closed]
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04. On my work network, there's a single-word address (let's call it foobar) that is responding to pings and HTTP requests, only from my machine. The address is not a TLD, just a ...
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How to define specific urls like 'localhost'?
The same way 'localhost' in the url points to /var/www/
I would like to put http://courses/somehting/somthing/moresomthings/....
and it would always point to /var/www/courses.php
This is to work on ...
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localhost subdomain wildcard
I'm trying to have *.localhost pointing at 127.0.0.1.
I read this post which is quite recent and looks promising but dnsmasq can't bind port 53:
* Starting DNS forwarder and DHCP server dnsmasq ...
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Ubuntu hostname on lan config
My host computer is Windows 7 64. I have VirtualBox with an Ubuntu 10.04 Server x64 running as guest. My Ubuntu Guest has an ip of 192.168.1.104. I have openssh installed on the guest. I can ssh ...
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Access Wiki installation on Host from Virtual Server
Recently I set up a Dokuwiki installation on Ubuntu Server in VirtualBox. My host OS is Ubuntu 11.10. Till date I was using NAT configuration for my VirtualBox. Since today I decided to use Host-only ...
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What would cause 'ping localhost' to fail?
the /etc/hosts file contains a line: 127.0.0.1 localhost
so localhost should be a valid hostname, but any attempt to connect to a port on localhost fails, including ping.
Connection attempts into ...
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Where should I place aliases for localhost?
I often need to use aliases for localhost (127.0.0.1) for my development work of websites, such that I can access them locally while routed via apaches virtual host concept.
In the past I have always ...
