Edit hostfile ipod touch

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Dieterfom wrote:
fun, and how can i arrange thet the ipod goes to that address?

Dieter

http://192.168.0.100/hmenu

The only other solution I can think of is to set up a caching name server somewhere on your LAN. Then the iPod will use the local nameserver to successfully resolve that URL.

Do you do your development on the iPod? It's meant to be more of a toy than a develoenr platform.

Putting the server name on your Linux server isn't going to work. You still need a local nameserver for the iPod to resolve the IP address.

See http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO-3.html for info how to set one up. Your Linux distro probably already comes with named. You just have to turn it on and configure it.

I'm not sure what adding a virtual server to your dhcpd server will do for you. You must be assigning some ip address to the iPod or nothing at all would work. The issue isn't getting a certain IP address on the iPod, it's getting the iPod to resolve http://testserver/ to http://192.168.0.100. The only thing you need to do is edit dhcpd.conf to give clients the IP address of the nameserver.

Add this to the subnet{} section of dhcpd.conf to tell clients to use the local nameserver:
option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.100;

(You might want to ensure your AP isn't giving out IP addresses, too. Make sure
the Linux server is handling dhcp by disabling dhcp on the wireless router/AP.)

After that is set up you will need the following in your dhcpd.conf:
option domain-name "domain.local";

That will allow you to use http://testserver/ in the iPod without the iPod trying to rewrite it into testserver.com.

Also see:
man named
man named.conf
man dhcpd
man dhcpcd.conf

But if you are just prototyping at this point it might be easier to search/replace the web pages and change the server name to the IP address.