On Monday 16 June 2003 08:57 am, JoeHill wrote:
> well, you've got to have some way of resolving IP to hostname. I haven't
> delved into it too much in Linux, but I believe Samba takes care of
> that. Correct me if I am wrong. I also can ping by name or IP, though I
> have no DNS (which I believe actually has nothing to do with it, that's
> for FQDN, ie. internet, not LAN) server running.
Oh, I beg your pardon Joe, I didn't see where you guys were talking about
Samba use - I thought you meant just between 'Nix boxes. :-)
I always put the IP address of each machine with an alias in /etc/hosts.
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