I have a couple of systems on my home LAN which have long, not very
useful, names, e.g.:-
DESKTOP-978VD5M - An MS Windows machine
MC342-AE529C - An OKI printer
I have added cname entries as follows in my dnsmasq.conf :-
cname=ben,DESKTOP-978VD5M
cname=oki,MC342-AE529C
So I can r
On 8/2/2020 2:39 PM, Chris Green wrote:
I have a couple of systems on my home LAN which have long, not very
useful, names, e.g.:-
DESKTOP-978VD5M - An MS Windows machine
MC342-AE529C - An OKI printer
I have added cname entries as follows in my dnsmasq.conf :-
cname=ben,DESKTOP-9
On Sun, Aug 02, 2020 at 07:54:00PM +0200, john doe wrote:
> On 8/2/2020 2:39 PM, Chris Green wrote:
> > I have a couple of systems on my home LAN which have long, not very
> > useful, names, e.g.:-
> >
> > DESKTOP-978VD5M - An MS Windows machine
> > MC342-AE529C - An OKI printer
> >
> >
Hi Chris,
I think the most proper way is to change hostname of machine to
something sensible. When you do not want random hostname, give it some
name. And let it use them.
Is there reason, why you cannot change name of the device on device
itself? Have you tried to supply hostname on dhcp-record