Re: ssh again
On Tue 14 Jun 2016 at 16:06:17 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 June 2016 15:53:17 Mark Fletcher wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:48 PM Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 14 June 2016 15:40:22 Reco wrote:
> > > > Hi.
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 03:32:19PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > >
> > > Hostnames, here I come.
> > >
> > > For hostnames within your own network, consider installing avahi.
>
> Thanks, Mark. I have. After the earlier hints. I just haven't got it
> working yet. :-( So I shall look at both it and having hostnames files to
> see which I can actually succeed with.
With avahi-daemon installed on both machines
ssh hostname.local
should just work. No messing with config files or anything like that.
/etc/hosts is fine if you are more comfortable with it but an IP address
changing can make it a pain on the local LAN.
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