setting up ubuntu dhcp hostname

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (dsr at tao.merseine.nu)]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 10:16:47AM -0400, Tuomas Utrecht wrote:
> hi.
> my ssh problem is i can ssh my address 192.168.1.104 but not its name and my
> name tuomas. gboyce helped me but i cant get that to work. its hard to
> remember the number everytime.

Ah. You need name resolution.

The two major methods available are DNS or a hosts file. The
easy one is a hosts file:

On each machine in your local network, add an entry to
/etc/hosts or the equivalent (there's one in Windows, for
instance) like this:

192.168.1.104     tuomas

After that, "ssh tuomas" on that machine should work.

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