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Originally posted by kbiswas
I need to access this server from anywhere and
will surely not req to add the IP of all the workstations in the server !!!
If you persist in using /etc/inet/hosts, that is exactly what you're going to need to do. In the 80's we used to download a hosts file from the NIC. It had an entry for every internet connected host and it was huge. This is why DNS was invented.
You should be adding each host and ip address to a dns server. Then you should be using dns to find them.
I can't tell if you're not using dns at all, or if you're putting in the forward entry but leaving the reverse entry out. But for the second time I will say that you to be sure that you can use the nslookup command on the IP address:
nslookup 1.2.3.4
or whatever your IP address is.