On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Chad Perrin wrote:
> ethan zimmerman wrote:
>
> > Here is the file you want to mess with
> > /etc/hosts
> >
> > you can read about it in the manual pages
> > man hosts
> >
> > Basically it's a bunch of lines that associate an IP address with some
> > sort of human-friendly name/alias. It has 3 parts
> > IP_address canonical_hostname aliases
>
>
> That doesn't solve the problem of name resolution when DHCP assigns IP
> addresses dynamically, though.
Is this *your* DHCP server? Do what I do -- have the DHCP server assign
them the same address every time. If it's not, use one of those "free
hostname" sites (eg no-ip.com, dhs.com) on each machine.
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