[DaveT]

Consider: Our company web site is behind a firewall. The inside firewall DNS is different from the one that's used from the outside. Under OS 9, we could access the site by making a change to the host file and envoke it through the TCP/IP control panel.

I can't see the site under OS X.

In OS X, I added the host to my local NetInfo database, but it isn't fixing the problem. (ref: AppleCare Knowledge Base article ID: 88158)

Workaround: Use the Classic browser, but 10.2 will not let me access to the TCP/IP control panel.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[Mithras]

1. Can you access the site by typing in the IP address directly?
If not, you have bigger problems.

2. Try adding the server's IP address and name to the /etc/hosts file.
(Do this in the terminal with 'sudo pico /etc/hosts', or with BBEdit).

Ignore what the file says about being used only in single-user mode -- that was true in 10.1, but the file is used in 10.2.

(If the file does not seem to be being used, make sure 'BSD Configuration Files' is enabled in the Directory Access application, in the Utilities folder).

[DaveT]

Thanks Mithras. #2 did the trick! I knew it was in there somewhere. It seems like it should be more readily available than that though.

You've save us much agonizing!

Dave

[Mithras]

No problem.

As for "more readily available", it's just a text file. It's in the standard location that generations of internet-enabled Unix computers have used. You can make additions to it with any text editor. I don't think there's an OS out there that does it any differently.

cheers,
aaron