hostname resolution ip DNS help????

when I try to access part of our website which is hosted internally the domain name does not resolve and it doesn't even work when I type in the IP address because apparently there is some code on the that calls for the server name so it never gets further than loading the page title.

Things work fine from the outside by the way.

My IT guy tells me there should be some equivalent on my MAC (OSX) to the hostname file on Windows which I can edit so that server name always resolves to the IP. This is what he does on the local pcs so it works. If I recall properly (reaching now) as well, Windows got this from UNIX--so it seems OSX would have a configurable host file but I can't find it. I do think though that I found the OS9, but that does me no good.

Any advice anyone?

much thanks in advance.

a solution

judging by the number of views of this post no one seems particularly interested, but just in case.....down the road. A solution to my problem:

I downloaded a great utility from http://www.aquafiles.com called hostal. It allows you to block or map IP addresses via your host file. This bypasses any DNS difficulties.

Alternatively you can log in as root and open /etc/hosts and edit it; simple entering the IP followed be space and domain name.

I spent far too long figuring this out, but you learn something new every day.

cheers

Yes, now I see what your referring to in NetInfo Manager. I had looked at that before but was a little puzzled. The shareware I downloaded only changed my hosts file, which I now realize how to do manually, so it's a bit unecessary.