On 10/5/19 3:56 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 10/4/19 6:35 AM, George N. White III wrote:
On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 at 06:41, Angelo Moreschini <mrangelo.fedora@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:mrangelo.fedora@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
currently I perform operations between different computers in my
local network using open SSH; however, when I do this, I always use
the computer's IP number to reference the host. (ex: sudo ssh
angelo_dev@10.0.0.15 <mailto:angelo_dev@10.0.0.15>)
I'm wondering without yet finding an answer how to do the same thing
using (instead of the IP address) the name of the computer ..
Do I have to Installase BIND? And then what else is needed? ...
Have you tried Multicast DNS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_DNS>? See mDNS on Fedora Linux <https://fedoramagazine.org/find-systems-easily-lan-mdns/>
This is what I was just going to suggest. You need to set on each computer a unique hostname with "hostnamectl" and make sure that avahi is running. On the computer you're connecting from, make sure you have "nss-mdns" installed (I don't know if it is by default). Then you can use "<myhostname>.local" to connect. If you don't set a hostname, I think the default is "linux", so you end up with linux.local, linux-2.local, etc.
One thing to be aware of, and not mentioned in the fedora magazine article is you happen to
have a network with some hosts using IPv6 only you need to change the nsswitch.conf
host line to mdns_minimal instead of mdns4_minimal.
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If simple questions can be answered with a simple google query then why are there so many of them?
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