[Linux-disciples] hostname 'announce' on LAN

[Dylan Thurston]

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).
> 
> Presumably it's necessary to enable hostname 'advertising' in some way.
> 
> Does anyone know where this is done?

You set up the DNS host on the LAN to have a default domain.

Peace,
	Dylan
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