Re: [Hampshire] Hostnames

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Author: Alex Dicks
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Hostnames
On 29/01/13 15:37, Alan Pope wrote:
> 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 :)


Isn't that due to Avahi/Zeroconf, and nothing to do with your router?

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