Brian Fahrlander wrote:
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 12:02 -0500, Nat Gross wrote:
When you say append .local, is that referring to all machines on the local net, or only to this one local host. In other words, for the other hosts on the lan, do I also need to append .local?
...for the local net, yeah. If you put both names in /etc/hosts it'll work the way you think, and the way you want:
192.168.1.5 router.local router 192.168.1.10 mybox.local mybox
(and so on)
This is something understood by the collection of machines involved; it can be anything. ".local" could easily be ".shoehorn" just as long as every machine knows about it. ".local" just keeps it straight, for me.
Thank you all. -nat
