Any other solution except the hosts file in windows?

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Captain-Price_ZA

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Good day everyone

It would be very kind if someone could help me on this topic

In a month i will host another lan party of + - 24 people
The problem comes in lan we host a private website to check server status and we host games like Call of duty 4 now the server is located at 192.168.1.100 and i modify my hosts file so we can connect to ip.net and that redirects us to 192.168.1.100 and makes easy to connect to our teamspeak and servers. Here comes the problem modifing 24 private computers of each guest isnt a option can we make a type of dns server that will redirect us for eg. ip.net to 192.168.1.100?
is this possible?

Please this will help me a lot
 
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The machines have to know where to look.
If using DHCP, you can specify the DNS server for these machines.
You then need to configure this hostname and IP address in the configured DNS server.

The hosts file bypasses this using netbios.
The other alternative there is a WINS server, but that is usually only done in a domain where the domain server is also the WINS server.
Any participants with Windows 7 versions under Pro can't join a domain, and you would have to go around and add each machine to the domain anyway.
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VincentP

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If the machines have manually configured IP addresses, then you would have to configure the DNS IP on each computer and this won't have helped you.
If you have a DHCP server (e.g. in your router), this will likely be the default gateway and DNS server assigned to each machine automatically.
You may be able to hard code a DNS entry in the router.

Other than that, just get people to use the IP address rather than a host name.
 
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VincentP

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The machines have to know where to look.
If using DHCP, you can specify the DNS server for these machines.
You then need to configure this hostname and IP address in the configured DNS server.

The hosts file bypasses this using netbios.
The other alternative there is a WINS server, but that is usually only done in a domain where the domain server is also the WINS server.
Any participants with Windows 7 versions under Pro can't join a domain, and you would have to go around and add each machine to the domain anyway.
 
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