Accessing fedora on LAN by hostname

[Reindl Harald]

Am 08.09.2012 16:17, schrieb 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

he said he do not want a static /etc/hosts
he said he has only two computers

nobody can imagine what exactly is his problem

remember two ip-addresses is trivial
maintain two /etc/hosts is trivial
but he do not like both

setup a DNS for two hosts is also trivial but nonsense

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