Duncan Way wrote:

>On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 02:36:52 +1000, Mike O'Connor wrote:
>
>>i Duncan,
>>
>>I may be wrong, but I've never seen a hosts entry with a port specified 
>>along with the dotted-quad!
>>Why can't you just enter "192.168.0.4:8080" in the
Mozilla URL entry? 
>>    
>>
>I can.  I just wanted to be able to enter duncan.way.name as everyone
else would, to 
>see that it pointed to my computer.
>  
>
>>The way it is I read "rudy" as an *alias* for
"duncan.way.name"
>>    
>>
>Correct.  If I enter 'rudy' as a url I expect it to go to duncan.way.name.
>  
>
Hi Duncan,

Then what you have to have in the hosts is:

"192.168.0.4    duncan.way.home    rudy"  [minus dbl-quotes of course]

and then you would have to enter "rudy:8080" in the Mozilla URL

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Regards,
Mike

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