[Techtalk] Host names on a LAN

[Miriam English]

I don't know much on this topic, but this question piqued my curiosity 
so I did a bit of a search and found this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_configuration_networking
which contains lots of potentially useful leads.

Hope it is helpful.

Cheers,

	- Miriam

David Sumbler wrote:
> I have 2 desktop computers (one running Ubuntu 9.10 and a new one with
> 10.10) and a handheld one running Windows XP Pro (yuck!)  They are all
> connected to a Netgear DGN2000 router which is a DHCP server.
> 
> The router knows the hostnames of all the computers, but the individual
> conputers don't know each other's names, so when I want to use SSH or
> Samba to connect two together I have to log into the router to find out
> the relevant IP address and then use that.
> 
> The easy solution to this problem would, of course, be for me to set up
> fixed IP addresses, which is easy with just 3 computers and 1 router!
> 
> But surely there must be a way to get the router to act as a DNS server
> within the LAN, or to inform the client computers of the names of the
> other hosts.  How can this be done?
> 
> David

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