On Tue 25 Jan 2022 at 09:31:57 (+0100), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 24 ian 22, 23:54:41, Brian wrote: > > > > Resolving hostnames on the local network is simple and reliable when > > avahi-daemon and linnss-mdns are available. > > > > brian@desktop:~$ getent hosts envy4500.local > > 192.168.7.235 envy4500.local > > > > Continually and nanually maintain /etc/hosts? Not in 2022!
More like biannually :-) It's just pointless here, on such a static network. If I'm going to login to the router to add a MAC, then editing and distributing my master list is trivial. Last change: 2021-02-04, when I got hold of a redundant computer. > Ok, I'll bite :) > > Could you point to any (reasonably up-to-date) documentation or is it > sufficient to just install avahi-daemon and libnss-mdns? I looked at the Debian wiki: ouch. It seems to have been spammed a while back, and hasn't been touched in 4½ years. Although the Arch wiki is far better, I'm not able to judge how much one might be led astray by the differences between Arch and Debian. I can't speak to Gene's wanting a static network configured by his method, but I'm happy to defend my choice. Cheers, David.
