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SDC has been designed to run in most environments, from large data centers with multiple firewalls, all the way down to your laptop.

The SDC Delivery Hub requires a fixed domain name or IP address. In corporate installations this isn’t much of an issue, but you may not have your own Domain Name Service (DNS) server, so how do you work around that?

If you’re just running SDC for you and others on your local network, the easiest thing to do is to modify your hosts file(s). Typically, this means something like the following:

1. Edit your hosts file as administrator/root using your favorite text editor.
On windows the hosts file is usually found at C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts
On mac/linux the hosts file is usually found at etc/hosts

2. Add an entry for your SDC Delivery Hub. Pick the name you want for your Delivery Hub, something like sdcdeliveryhub and give it your local IP address. For example:

sdcdeliveryhub 192.168.0.101

3. Run the SDC Delivery Hub installer and specify the name when prompted for the name of the Delivery Hub machine.

You may have to maintain this setting in your hosts file if your IP address changes a lot. In small operations, you can minimize this by configuring your router to always give the same IP address to the MAC address of your machine. It’s important to note that although the Delivery Hub runs on one machine, you can run as many SDC Admin Consoles as you want from any machine that can talk over the network to your Delivery Hub machine.

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