Help with hosts file

ringo747 · 21 Aug 2012 at 22:51

This is probably a dumb question but I am trying to redirect a SharePoint Web Server to itself so that there is no double hopping to any other SharePoint boxes.

Hosts file currently is something like:

Code:

127.0.0.1        mywebapplication.com
10.11.12.13     mywebapplication.com

The second line is the IP address of the server itself. Is there likely to be any issues with using both localhost and also the machine IP address to point to the same web application url?

We are noticing random prompts for credentials and I'm wondering would this be why?

Burnsy2023 · 21 Aug 2012 at 23:30

It will never get to the second line. You can't have multiple entries to the same hostname in the HOSTS file. Just use the second entry.

ringo747 · 22 Aug 2012 at 08:59

Ok great - if the machine has multiple IP addresses what should be used? Some will have a public IP or a LAN IP I believe.

Burnsy2023 · 23 Aug 2012 at 13:10

ringo747 said:
Ok great - if the machine has multiple IP addresses what should be used? Some will have a public IP or a LAN IP I believe.

That depends what you want to achieve. Why are you using the HOSTS file instead of DNS?

ringo747 · 23 Aug 2012 at 14:47

DNS points to a load balanced IP for the web application url. Hosts file should prevent double hopping between front end web servers.