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Recently, I’ve been trying to move all my virtual machines to the Amahi box (using VirtualBox), and save me needing to have a Server2008 machine always running when the Amahi box is already on 24/7.

Anyway, one of the issues I have is to do with using the same static IP for more than 1 DNS record. For example, with web stuff, it’s very likely that you’ll have the webserver listening on a given IP address for a number of Host Headers (eg “www.mydomain.com” for port 80, and “secure.mydomain.com” for port 443).

Now, I’ve got webmin installed so that I could set DNS stuff, but I’ve found that entries seem to sometimes get wiped and replaced by Amahi. So I then looked at getting the job done by setting static IPs for the desired Host Headers through the HDA control panel ("Networking -> Static IPs"), but it appears that each entry in the “Static IPs” has to be a unique IPs (ie I can’t create seem to create more than 1 entry for the same IP address).

So far, I've been using entries in the local Windows "hosts" file to direct traffic to the right IP, but if I can centrally manage these DNS entries I could then use other devices that don't have a local "hosts" file (eg iPhone, iPad, etc).

Does anyone know of the best way to get this done?

Check out the Aliases section in the networking tab. That might meet your requirements. It will allow you to give aliases to IP addresses. For example, I set my network printer alias to PRINTER so if I want to access the admin console, I only have to enter PRINTER.

bigfoot65, you *are* the MAN!

I didn't think of using the aliases.

And you're right, they work (other than I have to use the fully qualified name when accessing from Static IP machines).

Thanks, that certainly opens up more opportunities!