The reason I don't do that, however, is because I tend to move my laptop around a lot, and I usually take awhile to realize why I can't get here
Hehe. I guess I may have to switch to using the private IP address for everything.
I was wondering if maybe it got shut down or something (because I couldn't get to most of the services it was running -- including SSH), but then I realized I was still listening to Dry Kill Logic (Samba)!
You don't think this would have anything to do with it, do you?
C:\>ipconfig -all
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : chris
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-11-2F-62-A4-56
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.25
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.2
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.2
I would imagine Windows should consult the hosts file before it queries a DNS server, but I suppose I could be wrong. I have all my network settings statically configured, DHCP is disabled on my router, my server is DMZ'd (and I haven't bothered setting up a DHCP server on Linux yet) and I accidentally disabled the HTTP server on my router (T_T). I may have to restore settings on it or something soon to fix that...