Acessing VMware Ubuntu by server name

[Fajar Priyanto]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:01 PM, marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have Ubuntu running as a VMware vm on a Windows XP box.
> I can access services, say Apache, by the vm's IP address, but I would
> like to access them by their machine/domain name.
>
> In other words, use:
>  http://server/helpdesk
>
> instead of:
>  http://192.168.1.201/helpdesk
> Is there a way to do this?
> I am using a bridged connection, so the vm has its own IP address.
>
> Yes, there are two ways:
1. Setup DNS
2. Setup your /etc/hosts:
192.168.1.201 server.bla.bla server

HTH,
Fajar
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