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Chris,

Have you registered your IP ?

If yes, where did you get it from? and have you made sure that
www.mysite.com points to your IP.

Are you using a PPP or eth connection to the net?

If you're looking for something quick and dirty, and you have a dynamic
IP (ie: it changes every time you logon to the net), give yourself a YI
hostname.

go to www.yi.org and sign up for a free account.

You then download a small shell script and it will update your dynamic IP
to your yi hostname every time you want to, so by doing this, every time
you go to eg: www.mysite.yi.org it will go to your IP.

Since I don't know how you have your IP, or even what your IP is, I can't
help you further, please tell me a little more if you can.

If you feel like you can battle it out on your own, A few pointers will
be the file /etc/hosts:

check that all the hostnames there tally up with the IP addresses.

Check that your Linux box has the correct hostname and or IP set:

If you have a red hat based linux distro (redhat, mandrake, definite,
etc) you can run netconf as root and set up the network from there.


Good Luck,

Al.

In article <mGSK5.49486$YX4.1606791@news2.giganews.com>, "Chris"
<chris@rockfort.com> wrote:

> Hi.. I am 4 weeks into Rehat Linux/Apache. I built a web server and all
> is well except for one thing.. I can only reach the web site on my sever
> by using the IP address and not the host name eg. http://www.mysite.com"
> will not take me to the site, but 123.456.789 will.. I have registered
> my Name server with network solutions. I can ping the name server by
> name or it's IP address  from any web connected PC, so I know that that
> part is good.
>               I a new to Linux (15 years of Microsoft) and I would like
>               to
> break away from Microsoft so am trying desperatly.. Please help me
> someone.. I kow that it has be something simple..I can be reached at;
> chris@rockfort.com
> 
> Greatly appreciate your help.. Thanks Chris
> 
>