Re: [Hampshire] Hostnames

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Author: Alan Pope
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Hostnames
On 29/01/13 15:25, Leo wrote:
> from the computer called hostname1 it won't go looking on the internet
> for hostname2 (as it currently does)?
>


My home router seems to do this for me:-

alan@deep-thought:~$ ping wopr.local
PING wopr.local (192.168.1.123) 56(84) bytes of data.

alan@deep-thought:~$ ping hactar.local
PING hactar.local (192.168.1.105) 56(84) bytes of data.

Not sure what I did to make it happen. Clearly DD-WRT is awesome :)

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