Taking a specific ip to my local webserver

aspedisca · 10-21-2009, 10:34 AM

Hi all,

For some purpose in my home network I want to get a specific ip to my localhost on that machine.

Like say I typed 123.123.123.123 I want that go to localhost.

How can I do this.

Thank you

normscherer · 10-21-2009, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by aspedisca

Hi all,

For some purpose in my home network I want to get a specific ip to my localhost on that machine.

Like say I typed 123.123.123.123 I want that go to localhost.

How can I do this.

Thank you

I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to do. If you are trying to assign a given ip address to your host you can do that in /etc/hosts (try man hosts). You need to be aware that ip addresses are assigned on a global basis and you can not just use one like the one you gave as an example. Specific address groups are allocated for private network use and may be used by anyone. Examples are 192.168.nnn.nnn for class c networks.

Norm

aspedisca · 10-21-2009, 11:15 PM

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Originally Posted by normscherer

I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to do. If you are trying to assign a given ip address to your host you can do that in /etc/hosts (try man hosts). You need to be aware that ip addresses are assigned on a global basis and you can not just use one like the one you gave as an example. Specific address groups are allocated for private network use and may be used by anyone. Examples are 192.168.nnn.nnn for class c networks.

Norm

Hi,

Thank you for your help but I should try to be more clear I guess.
For example there is a website like linuxquestions.com and at home when I type the ip of this website I would like it to take me to my localhost. Sounds silly for this case I know...

I have a device always trying to connect to a website and basically I am planning to give it my localhost and config files at localhost.

I did this with a weird way though but I believe there should be a way to do this in linux and I wonder how I can do it.

Thank you

normscherer · 10-25-2009, 07:09 PM

You should be able to put an entry in /etc/hosts

Something like this

127.0.0.0 localhost somehost.somedomain

There is really no reasonable way I know of to make it connect to the localhost given the ip address of another site. As I show you can short circuit the name to address translation by having an entry in your /etc/hosts file.