DNS question (Custom lookups)

[Zhenya]

Hey guys,
I've build some internal things in my house that I would love to be accessible simple to a layman.

So for example I have a server presenting http @ 192.168.x.xx/foo
I would love for any computer on the LAN to be able to point to in $custom_text/ in a browser and have that point to http://192.168.x.xx/foo.

How would I accomplish this?

Sorry, if this is obvious, I searched and couldn't find the answer.

Zhenya

 

[Calisro]

you cant easily with the router. you can use something like google domains to do this easily though. you can take and say:

foo.yourdomain.com -> http://192.168.1.4/foo
bar.yourdomain.com -> http://192.168.1.5:8888/bar

you need a domain though for $12 a year.

EDIT: It's called "synthetic records" in google.

 

[Zhenya]

Great thank you. I forgot to add that I only want this to work on my local network. Does that change things?

 

[kvic]

I only want this to work on my local network.

Have a good read on dnsmasq+lighttpd+mod_alias.

Then you can have e.g. "http://bob" going to "http://192.168.x.xx/foo"... "http://bar" going to "http://192.168.x.xx/footoo" etc

 

[Calisro]

Great thank you. I forgot to add that I only want this to work on my local network. Does that change things?

no. it can work locally. just plug local ips into google domains