DNS or httpd?

[florian.muenkel@gmx.net]

hi,

my server here at home is reachable via 192.168.0.5....
and its name is server.muenkel-fine-arts.local.
when i ping the server via his name, it works without problems.
but when i send a http-request to it via its name i get the following error message:

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The requested URL could not be retrieved

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While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.server.muenkel-fine-arts.local/

The following error was encountered:

Unable to determine IP address from host name for www.server.muenkel-fine-arts.local
The dnsserver returned:

Name Error: The domain name does not exist.
This means that:

The cache was not able to resolve the hostname presented in the URL.
Check if the address is correct.

Your cache administrator is webmaster.



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Generated Thu, 07 Nov 2002 19:32:55 GMT by server.muenkel-fine-arts.local (Squid/2.3.STABLE4-hno.CVS)
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what's the matter?

thanks, florian

[cowanrl]

Take out the www. That's not automatically part of the URL. You should be able to access the server with:

http://server.muenkel-fine-arts.local

www is acutally meaningless as far as accessing servers via http is concerned.

If you wanted to use www in the name, you would need to rename your server to www.muenkel-fine-arts.local.