Re: ssh again
Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 June 2016 18:08:45 Brian wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Works a dream!! Thank you, Brian. That was a remarkably easy lesson! I
> might set a hosts file up as I was shown by emetib. It doesn't hurt
> to know both, and I might some time want to ssh into a machine that
> hasn't got avahi-daemon installed.
>
> But I can see that changing IPs around could be a pain - I have several
> machines that have two network cards for one reason or another, and I
> have assigned different IPs to different cards in the router.
This is a little more "involved" than /etc/hosts or ahavi-daemon, but
you might consider isc-dhcp-server and bind9 on a box you designate as
"your server" (I have it on a spare desktop sitting in the corner).
That way,
- you don't have to mess with /etc/hosts as things change (e.g. got a
new computer)
- you don't have to worry about "oh, that one doesn't have
ahavi-daemon"
- you can use hostnames with networked device, including those things
that may not have hostfiles or a decent bonjour client (phones,
tablets, TVs, etc.)
- Other stuff I'm forgetting :)
- When you replace your router (or get a forced 'upgrade' from your
ISP), you don't have to deal with "fixing things" beyond the router
itself.
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