Accessing fedora on LAN by hostname

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 08:34 +0200, Lukáš Šembera wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> on my home LAN network, there are 2 fedora computers. The problem is
> that I'm unable to access one from the another by hostname. So, for
> example, when I'm mounting a NFS share, I've to use the IP address.
> The same issue is with ping, ssh, etc. What do I need to configure to
> make resolving by hostname on LAN work? Thank you very much.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> Lukáš Šembera

Have you gotten your /etc/resolv.conf properly configured. That is the
file that translates a host name to an ip address.
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