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For the technically advanced users who know what a "hosts" file is: Change your "hosts" file on your desktop client machine to add the line "128.36.64.90 auth.yale.edu". Browsers have a DNS lookup cache that remembers the IP address of recently used hosts. Google for something like "firefox dns cache" and choose an article that tells you how to use "about:config" to flush or disable it, or use a Browser you don't normally use that will not have a recent entry for "auth.yale.edu". From a Browser on the desktop client machine, login to your application. If it works, the test is done. If there is a problem, report it. Now delete or comment out the change just made to the "hosts" file. |
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- Copy the test "hosts" file to the "etc" directory. To make sure it is working, issue the command "ping auth.yale.edu" and verify that the address being used is 128.36.64.90.
- Most Browsers have a DNS cache that remembers the IP address of recently visited servers. If you have an installed browser you don't normally use, then use it for testing. Otherwise, you have to Google for "firefox dns cache" (for FireFox) choose an article that tells you how to turn
- Launch a "Private Browser Window" so you have no existing session with CAS, Shib, or your application.
- Login to your application. If it works, the test is successful.
- Copy the original saved file to the "etc" directory.
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