Accessing fedora on LAN by hostname

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 00:43 -0600, Frank Cox 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.
> 
I made a mistake.. the file is /etc/hosts not /etc/resolv.conf.

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