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Re: [LUG] /etc/hosts
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- Subject: Re: [LUG] /etc/hosts
- From: Steven CÃtà <steven.cote@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:50:18 +0100
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A server is nice but requires a permanently on machine - not useful where there are an ad-hoc collection of machines (as my house is since my server went titsup. I find DSL routers go titsup here a lot - too much lightnin. - just have a handy hosts file to modify for a new machine...
Tom te tom te tom
If there's only a couple machines and they don't change often, copying around a hosts file might be the easiest option. If devices change fairly often and you're not up to setting up a DNS server, there's always mDNS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_DNS). Avahi is the Linux implementation of this.
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