Re: ignored hosts

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 09:50 +0200,
networkmanager davidmaxwaterman fastmail co uk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would have thought this would have come up before, but I can't find
> mention of it anywhere close to the developers. Perhaps it is 'silly' in
> some way, or there is a non-GUI way of adding such.
> 
> I'm trying to find a way to add exceptions to the ignored hosts list.
> Here is my use-case :
> 
> The company I work for, let's call it 'xyz.com', has some hosts on the
> intranet and some on the internet, both in the same 'domain'.
> 
> EG, www.xyz.com is only available from the internet, and home.xyz.com is
> only available from the intranet.
> 
> To get to regular internet sites from the intranet, I use a proxy
> server. I have added '*.xyz.com' to the 'ignored hosts' tab in network
> manager. Unfortunately, this stops me from being able to get to
> www.xyz.com (and a few others).

This doesn't sound like NetworkManager, since none of the NM GUIs that I
know of have this sort of tab.  Perhaps you're thinking of the GNOME or
KDE proxy settings control panels?

Dan

> Is there a way to add an 'exception' to the ignored hosts? I was hoping
> for something like :
> 
> +*.xyz.com
> -www.xyz.com
> 
> or even some kind of reg-ex or bash-like syntax :
> 
> !(www).xyz.com
> 
> Max.
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