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?? Not sure how to do that on this platform - as I've mentioned before, I'm not a linux/unix person, so you need to be very specific with the commands since it's not in the directions. Thanks.

You didn't tell me what platform you were using, this setting is in your web browser you'll need a tool that will goto an IP address but say it's looking for a web site byname, not address. Normally the ipaddress would be used as the servername or if a name was supplied then that hostname would have been used.

This way you can type http://www.google.com/ but then get content from gmail.google.com assuming both sites opperate of the same address.

Thanks for the information, but I'm not using a broswer. The directions that someone posted earlier and that I'm following have the following directions:

"Getting the Update
On the your XI machine, first change to the /tmp directory:
cd /tmp
Next, download the latest stable or development release to the /tmp directory on the XI machine.
To download the latest stable release, use the following command:
wget http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... est.tar.gz
To download the latest development release, use the following command:
wget http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... vel.tar.gz"

So, I'm on Nagios as root and I run into trouble with the wget command.... when I try to download the update, I get the following error:
"Resolving assets.nagios.com...failed: Temporary failure in name resolution. wget: unable to resolve host address 'assets.nagios.com'. If I use the other address name or the IP you provided, The name give the same error as before, and the IP gives me a 404: not found error.

I'm not sure where a browser comes into play here...

Thanks.

wget is the browser, if you can only connect by address then you need to have wget forge a host header matching our named virtual host definition for assets.

http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual ... tions.html

This is the configuration on our end: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/vhosts/name-based.html

Unfortunately due to the value of an IPv4 address I'd say %90 of all webservers will have this enabled, so it's an unfortunate learning curve for any one wanting to participate in web surfing.

IPv6 is 10years+ and still nowhere in sight.

Thanks for the info. Unfortunaly, it doesn't help me solve my issue - unless someone can specifically tell me step by step how to do this. As I've mentioned I'm not that familar with linux and since you stated that it's an "unfortunate learning curve", it tells me that I'm not going to get this upgraded. It's too bad - I really like the product and it does exactly what I need it to do, but I can't rebuild it each time there is an upgrade. Thanks, though for all your help.

It sounds to me like there is either a problem with your company's DNS server or your firewall somehow locks things down. Your best bet is probably to talk to the network administrator to find out what you need to do to access assets.nagios.com from the machine in question.

I am the network admin. I don't have any issues getting out to the nagios site on windows... just can't do it from the nagios machine. Is there some port number that you guys specifically use?

We don't make use of non-standard ports.

Then that's not the issue...