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access to clients width domain name instead of IP address

I have a local network (no internet) and I want to access to clients with domain name instead of IP address. Is that possible? The router is ASUS RT-N12+

Solution

  • If clients can access the app by ip address, all you need to do is assign this ip address to a host name to be able to access the service by that host name.

    You can either do this by creating a host in a domain you have DNS control over, or you can use a service like dyndns to get a sub-domain you can allocate host names in.

    If the service is behind a NAT firewall/router (on unregistered IPs, e.g 192.168..), and the clients are external, then you would need to be able to set up port-forwarding on the firewall/router. For that RTFM.