Hi David,
Thanks for your responses.
I'm going to try to your questions and points all in this one post
so it's easier to comprehend.
Regarding the 'local' name, i don't know how it came into being
(or whether it was deliberate on anybody's part). I sure don't
think i created it.
Thanks for po
On Sun 17 Apr 2016 at 09:42:38 (-0700), Dan Hitt wrote:
> If there's a way to determine if i'm running mDNS on my main linux
> machine i'm certainly interested, but i don't want to be too greedy about
> this.
> Because, after all, maybe it is reasonable that if my main linux
> machine is sending a
On Sat 16 Apr 2016 at 23:56:11 (-0700), Dan Hitt wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 10:42 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> > ".local" TLD is kind of special so you may find problems anyway -
> > it's used for multicast DNS (Avahi). You may be better off picking a
> > different domain for your local network.
On Sat 16 Apr 2016 at 22:14:29 (-0700), Dan Hitt wrote:
> In my local network, the machines generally know each other by names like
> first_host.local
> second_host.local
> third_host.local
> ...
>
> So if i'm on first_host, i can ssh to second_host with
> ssh my_account@second
Andy --- thanks for all your help in diagnosing my situation and educating me!
This includes facts like the nature of these names (second_host was
indeed an example, did not know about the restriction on the names) and
use of dig.
I did some more experimentation on my system, and in fact my other
Thanks Andy for your suggestions --- some answers and questions
interspersed below:
On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 10:42 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 10:14:29PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote:
>> I would like to drop the '.local' because it's an extra six characters
>> with absolut
Hi Dan,
On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 11:56:11PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 10:42 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> > What doesn't work about it?
>
> It has no effect.
>
> So, if i do
> ping second_host
> i get "unknown host" from ping.
OK. So all the hosts on your local network are
Hi Dan,
On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 10:14:29PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote:
> I would like to drop the '.local' because it's an extra six characters
> with absolutely no value.
>
> In principle, i think it should be possible to by just adding
> search local
> to my /etc/resolv.conf, but this absolutel
In my local network, the machines generally know each other by names like
first_host.local
second_host.local
third_host.local
...
So if i'm on first_host, i can ssh to second_host with
ssh my_account@second_host.local
and i can ping second_host by
ping second_host.local
I
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