[Linux-disciples] hostname 'announce' on LAN

[Dylan Thurston]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:14:55PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 02:36:42PM +0200, Dylan Thurston wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 11:48:10PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> > > I seem to remember on same LANs you can ping systems by their hostname
> > > directly (e.g., 'ping joehill' resolves to my computer).
> > You set up the DNS host on the LAN to have a default domain.
> 
> Ah hah.  Apparently my router doesn't support local DNS, however, and it
> is the DNS host (it does permit setting a default domain).

I don't understand what you write.  You want to set a default domain,
so if your router does that, use it!  If it is the DNS host, then you
have local DNS...

Peace,
	Dylan
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