[CLUE-Tech] Home network question

[Adam A. G. Shamblin]

Well, you could run samba on all your machines and setup workgroups! :^P

At this point in a conversation about dhcp, I usually ask why it is necessary to run dhcp on such a small network.  On my own network, where every machine ultimately offers some sort of service, I never saw dhcp as useful beyond an academic exercise.

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 23:58:54 -0600
Matt Gushee <mgushee at havenrock.com> wrote:

> Well, if you've been following the Debian-DHCP thread, you know I've
> finally got DHCP working on one of my Linux boxes, and expect to have it
> working on the other shortly. But this solution creates a new problem:
> 
> I very often transfer files between my Linux boxes using scp &/or rsync.
> Up until now I've been doing that, and other things like ssh-ing, based
> on IP addresses. Since I've been starting networking manually for some
> time, for all practical purposes these machines have had fixed IP
> addresses. But with DHCP working, I can't count on the IP addresses, so
> I want to be able to access machines by hostname.
> 
> So my question is: what is the simplest way to enable Linux boxes on a
> small network to find each other by hostname?
> 
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