Accessing fedora on LAN by hostname

[Martin Airs]

On Saturday 08 Sep 2012 08:34:10 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

The avahi-daemon should provide local network name resolution, for example my 
pc is desktop.localdomain and my laptop is laptop.localdomain, on each I can 
simply ping desktop.local or laptop.local

basically its just the first part followed by .local

my hostname could be foo.example and I would ping foo.local from another 
machine on my network

hope that helps

Martin
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