On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 07:26 +0200, Antonio M wrote: > Funny because when I fired up the computers I could use name for > resolving remote computer, but only for a while. How are you doing name resolution? For small LANs (e.g. three computers at a home), it's easy enough to set the IPs to fixed addresses, then write entries into each PCs host files. e.g. Like this example (IPs, domain name, short hostname) 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.1 basement.localdomain basement 192.168.1.2 lounge.localdomain lounge 192.168.1.3 workroom.localdomain workroom If you use DHCP, then you really need to configure the DHCP server so that it always gives the same machine the same IP each time. Otherwise, your list gets out of synch with reality. For larger LANs, you really want a DNS server to do the name resolution, so that there's a central point of configuration, instead of having to hand configure each PC, and update each PC with any changes. Some routers let you program their DHCP server, but they don't put data into their DNS server, so that it could answer queries. Others do. Mine doesn't. So I switch off the DHCP server in my router, and run a DHCP and DNS server on a computer, and run them so the DHCP server reprograms the DNS server, as computers join the LAN. Avahi/ZeroConf does some kind of broadcasting technique - computers joining a LAN announce themselves, and requests from computers to other computers are similarly rather ad-hoc. Things like Samba can sort-of work things out amongst each other, but only for their own protocols (e.g. SMB file sharing, SMB printer sharing). When a computer connects to their LAN, they talk amongst themselves, figure out which is the most powerful (perhaps fastest computer), which one has been running longer, etc, and make it the master. It does name resolution for Samba, but for nothing else. If another computer joins the LAN, they go through that election process again, and that can seriously disrupt things for a long time (back in the Windows days, that could be 15 minutes any time there was a change). You were in for serious chaos if the master computer went offline. Without some consistent method of name resolution (such as above), you'll have problems using machine hostnames on a LAN. So, back to the question at the start of my reply: How are you doing name resolution? -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.19.8-100.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Tue May 12 17:42:35 UTC 2015 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
