Connecting to 'bubba' instead of ip address?

[trencarbe]

Hi,

What do I need to set in my router or bubba to get connected to bubba using 'http:bubba' and not its ip address??

If I use http://bubba, I end up on Internet site http://www.bubba.com/

What to do??


/TC

[jonte]

Hi,
If I use http://bubba, I end up on Internet site http://www.bubba.com/

First off, have you renamed your bubba to something else.
And secondly, are you trying to connect to your B2 locally?

Two things I can think of from the top of my head
I'm no expert though...

[6feet5]

Add bubba to your hosts file on the computer your having trouble with. On a linux system this file is located in /etc, and on windows it is located in %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\.

Add a line looking something like:

192.168.1.10 bubba

/Johan

[trencarbe]

First off, have you renamed your bubba to something else.
And secondly, are you trying to connect to your B2 locally?

The lookup ny name 'bubba' worked until I hard resetted my router, now it's recognized by it's IP address or

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http://bubba.lan

I't not a very big issue, I can add a host file in windows client - but I find it very strange that the behaviour changed after the hard reset...

[ian]

I've had this problem before, and I think it's possibly caused by having reset the router. If you reset your router and DON'T restart your bubba, the bubba retains its IP address but the router doesn't know what BUBBA means. However, if you reboot your bubba, when it restarts it requests an IP address from your router, and then BUBBA is added to the list of devices "known" by the router; http://bubba should then work.

I'm not 100% certain that this is the mechanism, and am willing to be proved wrong...

I have actually "bound" the IP address given to my bubba by my router, so that it is always given the same address; this way, if http://bubba doesn't work, http://192.168.x.y will work instead...

[trencarbe]

ian, I think you are right - today 'http://bubba' works again. I
did a reset of the router before and a now a reboot of Bubba.

Problem solved!