On 11/03/11 14:45, Chris Dennis wrote:
If it's really just two computers talking to each other, you could just give each one a fixed IP address, e.g. 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2, and they can talk to each other without requiring DHCP or DNS.
Same thought occurred to me too. You could also edit the hosts file [*] to allow name resolution to work.
[*] /etc/hosts on *nix boxes and C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts on Windows, IIRC, although it will be slightly different on 64 bit windows.
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