Laptop does not always recognise server

[Brian McKee]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 6:14 AM, John <John at dmj-consultancy.co.uk> wrote:
> In Firefox: try to access my local home page by name but with my
> external URL (.co.uk instead of forcing the local intranet domain,
> .local) - works fine

Your local domain is .local?   Are you using Zeroconf or is it
possible your laptop has avahi running and it's conflicting with the
existing domain setup?  I haven't spent any time on avahi so I know
little about it, but the coincidence seemed like a good place to
start.

Brian