On Wednesday 27 August 2003 04:15 am, Owen Ford wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 03:03, Kees Bergwerf wrote: > > Op woensdag 27 augustus 2003 08:22, schreef Tom Hosiawa: > > > For example, if I want to ping my desktop I can just go "ping > > > desktop_name" rather then "ping 192.168.1.100" > > > > in /etc/hosts: > > > > 192.168.1.100 desktop_name > > --Kees > > If he is using dhcp he very well might have to change those hosts > listings very frequently. I don't have a good solution either ;)
Along the same line, I have 2 gentoo boxes behind a linksys router. They both have static internal IP's. From /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.2 hostname_1.domainname..com hostname_1 and 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.2 hostname_2.domainname..com hostname_2 Neither machine can ping the other with the hostname, only with the IP. What am I missing here? The router is a Linksys BEFSR11 -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
