proxy

[rookie1010]

Hello

Is the word proxy in the LAN settings address "box" a URN within the namespace of a private network?
is this translated to an actual ip address?

 

[Law]

You can use the computer name in an active directory environment. Computer name will be resolve to an IP address on your internal DNS server if you have the host A record for that computer. And the client is pointing to that internal DNS.

In a workgroup environment netBIOS will do the job.

You can also use the HOST file, this file is the name to IP resolution that the computer first looks in before contacting the DNS server.

So yea, on the address box you can put in a computer name IP address or the URL. But I recommend IP address since it doesn't really need to be resolve.

If you put the URL, the DNS server must be able to resolve it to an IP address. Still the same process, but usually an IP address should be use so there isn't any problems.

 

[rookie1010]

thanks for the reply

what is an active directory environment.

what is the name of the HOST file? is this some sort of internal DNS determination?

i guess the proxy is resolved to an actual IP address by the HOST file, or is that done by NetBIOS?

 

[Law]

thanks for the reply

what is an active directory environment.

what is the name of the HOST file? is this some sort of internal DNS determination?

i guess the proxy is resolved to an actual IP address by the HOST file, or is that done by NetBIOS?

Active directory is just Microsoft way of using LDAP for a Windows domain environment to deploy policies, distribute software and critical updates. You have to install DNS with AD, so you'll have an internal DNS that you can use for name to IP resolution.

The name of the HOST file is HOSTS, you can find it in Windows or Linux. On XP it's located at C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc and on Linux it should usually be in /etc

The HOST file is just a manual way of putting in computer names to IP addresses, in the past this was how it was done, but as more computers were added to the network it became to much work to manage it on each computer. So newer and automatic way were introduced like WINS & DNS.

It is usually WINS or netBIOS on a local network, but over the Internet it's DNS because most computer HOST file are blank with the exception of the localhost entry.