My lazy ignorant suggestion is to reconfigure the router so that you know the IP of the two boxes will not change and then use /etc/hosts. On 10/21/07, zephod@xxxxxxxxxx <zephod@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think my understanding is a little lacking on this subject (one of many). > > Here is my simple and, I suspect, very common setup: 2 PCs, one FC6 Linux, one Windows Vista and a Linksys wireless router. A DHCP server on the Linksys determines the IP addresses of the 2 machines. > > My question is: is it possible for either machine to ping the other without having to make an entry in its local hosts file? Making entries in the hosts file doesn't seem like a good idea since the IP address could, in theory, change. > The Linksys is a WRT54G and I don't think that it contains a DNS server. The names of my 2 machine should never get to a public DNS router since they are on a private network. > > Steve > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
