On 8 July 2014 15:24, Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com wrote:
Ok, static IP by MAC address and custom entries in the hosts file sounds the way to go here...
You beat me to saying the same thing: surely a good old fashioned hosts file solves this?
Also, I haven't tried this but I would imagine that there's nothing stopping the real hosts file being stored in (eg) Dropbox and /etc/hosts just being a symlink to it, making it easy to synchronise between systems if you need to.