Posted on 12/08/2012 4:55:34 PM PST by RangerM
The name of target PC hosting your intranet might already be advertised on your LAN. If you can ping it by its name, good chance you can access the web server by that name without any additional name resolution services.
Let’s say the name of the computer hosting your internal website is: webserver. If from another PC you can ping webserver, then you can very likely ‘surf’ to it assuming there’s a web service like Apache or IIS currently running on the box.
To ping from a “DOS” command window:
ping webserver
To ‘surf’ from a web browser:
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