On Tue 14 Jun 2016 at 16:06:17 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 14 June 2016 15:53:17 Mark Fletcher wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:48 PM Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tuesday 14 June 2016 15:40:22 Reco wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 03:32:19PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > > > Hostnames, here I come. > > > > > > For hostnames within your own network, consider installing avahi. > > Thanks, Mark. I have. After the earlier hints. I just haven't got it > working yet. :-( So I shall look at both it and having hostnames files to > see which I can actually succeed with.
With avahi-daemon installed on both machines ssh hostname.local should just work. No messing with config files or anything like that. /etc/hosts is fine if you are more comfortable with it but an IP address changing can make it a pain on the local LAN.
