Overwatch Host File

(Extracted from Overwatch setup) Another thing that I have done is to point my "local" machines directly to the local server IP using the machines local hosts file. sudo nano /etc/hosts 192.168.1.myip myserver.mydomain.com (replace myip with host IP address and myserver.mydomain.com with the actual server domain FQDN) This way, that traffic is not going out the gateway only to come back in the gateway. Now if I ping the server FQDN it returns the local IP address and not the gateway IP address. If you try to https://serverip/overwatchurl you will probably get a certificate error for SSL (https). This is why I use a host fqdn over a straight IP address to connect to the server locally. If you do a traceroute myFQDN, you should see the ip of your overwatch server.