LAN config to minimise broadband use

LAN config to minimise broadband use

by Jon Lunn -
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Could anyone explain the steps I should go through to stop our LAN traffic going out of our router and back into our webserver?

We have a webserver hosted on our LAN.  At present if we point the client machines to the IP address of the moodle homepage at the point a link is selected it goes to the full domain name address.  This means our clients on the LAN are going out and back through our broadband connection.

All the clients go through a Wingate proxy server as well to complicate things.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Re: LAN config to minimise broadband use

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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This is definitely off-topic in this forum which is about performance tuning.

In fact the topic is also outside Moodle, IMHO!
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Re: LAN config to minimise broadband use

by Jon Lunn -

Could you possibly be a little more tolerant and helpful by suggesting where I could post a request for help?

I foolishly thought that the performance of the distribution of moodle at our establishment fell into the area of "Servers and Performance".

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Re: LAN config to minimise broadband use

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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Personaly I would have gone to a newsgroup, for example one from the hierarchy news:alt.comp.networking or news:comp.os.linux.networking if you are using Linux.

There may be better solutions! Like talking to your network administrator as another poster suggested.
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Re: LAN config to minimise broadband use

by Randy Obert -

Sounds pretty close to a legit question but I guess it is more networking than Moodle. 

The problem is that your users are resolving to your server via DNS apparently (http://moodleserver.com) User keys in the address, and through the miracle of the internet, the request is sent to a DNS server and the traffic is routed accordingly.

There are a number of fixes but running a local DNS server would probably be the easiest to implement.  You may be able to make an entry into the router tables as well that direct all traffic to http://moodleserver.com to the local IP of the server.  It is sort of a pain but a host file modification would work as well. Another method would be to have them use the server IP  http://xx.xx.xx.xx

You need to speak to whom ever setup the network and have them take care of the routing issue (they know the equipment) Explaining the process is moot without specific information on the network hardware. 

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