Accessing fedora on LAN by hostname

[Frank Cox]

On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 08:34:10 +0200
Lukáš Šembera wrote:

> 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.

man hosts

An example is included.

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