Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't, in general, know the IP address. I have a system on my LAN, > accessible on the internet via a dynamic DNS name. I want to refer to > it by a short nickname. That's exactly what the 'HostName' option in How long are your hostnames? I deliberately choose short names for my computers ;) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)