[X-Unix] URL remapped to .local address

[Jakob Peterhänsel]

Hi All,


PLEASE file a bug with Apple and post the Follow-up#/RadarWeb# so we 
can tag onto it!

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Jakob Peterhänsel
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On 4. maj 2004, at 21:59, Kevin Stevens wrote:

> On Tue, 4 May 2004, Stephen Jonke wrote:
>
>> What would cause a URL to map to a .local address when entered into 
>> the
>> web browser? For example, the URL http://mydomain.com:1234/~jukebox
>> (without an ending slash) turns into
>> http://mylocalmachine.local/~jukebox/ which fails because I'm trying
>> this while not on my local network. The machine "mylocalmachine" is
>> behind an airport base station which has port mapping of port 1234 to
>> port 80 on mylocalmachine. What's weird is that if I add an ending
>> slash to the URL, then it works:  http://mydomain.com:1234/~jukebox/
>> If I leave out the ending slash, it maps to the .local address.
>
> It's a discrepancy between what Apache thinks the hostname is, and 
> what OS
> X thinks the hostname is.  More below.
>
>> Am I running into a bug with the airport base stations port mapping, 
>> or
>> did I set something up some time in the past that is doing this?
>
> It's not the port mapping, it's a hostname issue.  I was able to 
> override
> it by forcing the host name in the httpd.conf file, but that's an ugly
> workaround.
>
> I'll state here that I am totally unable to control the hostname 
> setting
> on my 10.3 G5.
>
> - I don't want a .local address, and cannot figure out where to 
> eliminate
> it.
>
> - My hostname changes dynamically, apparently in response to some cron 
> job
> I haven't identified.
>
> - hostname -s doesn't stay set.
> - resolve.conf settings don't stay set.
> - Changing the /etc/hostconfig HOSTNAME setting from -AUTO- doesn't 
> stay
> set.
>
> It's frustrating as hell.  I want to use a standard host name on a
> standard default domain.  When I drop to a shell and ask for the 
> hostname,
> God only knows what I'll get from day to day.  Sometimes it's 
> 'babelfish',
> which is what I have set.  Sometimes it's 'babelfish.local'.  Sometimes
> it's 'babelfish.pursued-with.net'.  Sometimes it's "www babelfish mail
> mailhost".
>
> I *do* know how to control hostname and domain on a standard Linux/BSD
> box.  Trying to do it on OSX is driving me up a tree.