[Box Backup] Add extra option for client to solve NAT problem?

[Jamie Webb]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 04:00:15PM +0100, David Anderson wrote:
> Say my bb server is on the LAN as 192.168.1.1, but on the Internet as 1.2.3.4. 
> Then there is no single hostname that is appropriate for both types of 
> client, apart from the ugly kludge of having the LAN traffic travel to the 
> Internet router and back via NAT (using the Internet address in both types of 
> client).

A simple solution is to put the backup server's external name in
/etc/hosts on each internal client. Or do the equivalent using DNS.

-- Jamie Webb