Re: [Lynx-dev] [off topic] some way to connect to internal web server from the Internet?

[Nigel Horne]

Henry Nelson wrote:
> My previous ISP had a proxy server that I could use to connect to my web
> site using its Internet domain name.  My new provider doesn't have this
> service so I've been forced to use the server's internal network IP
> address to connect to it.  While this is okay for routine maintenance,
> it doesn't let me check on Internet connectivity, and it breaks a couple
> of links that I'd prefer to use the full URL rather than relative to the
> document root.

I do that by running a local name server which traps calls to my
external domain name and resolves it to 127.0.0.1. I can then enable or
disable this name server at will so that connecting to bandsman.co.uk
will either connect to the external or internal versions on demand.
Why not try that?

> __Henry

-Nigel

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