On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 12:52:58PM +0100, Martyn Drake wrote:
In general what do others here do about naming machines on a small SoHo LAN behind a router? Is there some accepted way of doing it?
Run my own nameserver :)
So how do you set things up so your nameserver knows a set of short convenient 'alias' names for all the local machines? Don't you need some sort of mechanism akin to /etc/hosts to enable you to give names to things like the two print servers I have?