Accessing fedora on LAN by hostname

[Lukáš Šembera]

Ok, so since I don't want to have static records in /etc/hosts, it is
necessary to configure the bind daemon somehow? I want to be able to
resolve hosts by their HOSTNAME value in /etc/sysconfig/network.



Best regards,


Lukáš Šembera

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
>
> 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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