[Linux-disciples] hostname 'announce' on LAN

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

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 suppose I
could set up a DNS host on another system and tell the router to point
everyone at that host at DHCP, but I wonder if there is any easier way?
I saw something about zeroconf and something else about SNMP, but neither
one yielded any results.
-- 
Adam Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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