*Thank you for your answers which provided me with useful basics on how Linux establishes DNS.*
*However, even reading other documentation, I am still not clear what mechanisms for which a computer becomes accessible in the LAN through its name:* *There are two important files: etc / hosts, etc / hostname and a system service <namectl> which are used to manage this problem, but it is not clear to me how (mechanism) they work, collaborate and interact.* *There is another aspect of the DSN that I would like to understand better:* *The DNS is defined and presented to an unsuspecting reader (also in the Fedora manuals) as a telephone directory which provides the telephone number of each subscriber to a hypothetical phone company OK.* *It is said that this telephone directory is modeled as a tree structure at the top of which we find the domains .com, .org, gov, .fr, it, etc. and works as a centralized server of the network that supplies the numbers in correspondence of names … **OK, OK….* *This type of solution applies to large computer networks of course.* *But since this clarification is not explicitly highlighted it can be confusing to a reader who reads the manual for the first time **in what context DNS is applied**...:* *Another is to get the name of a computer in a LAN and other is to create a DNS server .. and context difference (and the different solutions) is not highlighted in the manuals ...:* *It was difficult for me and I am still personally bewildered to distinguish which two different contexts may be ...* *That is to say ... when to simply use the Linux kernel service and when it can be useful to create a DNS server implemented via BIND.* *Thand you* *Angelo* On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 4:26 PM Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote: > On 10/5/19 3:56 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 10/4/19 6:35 AM, George N. White III wrote: > >> On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 at 06:41, Angelo Moreschini < > mrangelo.fed...@gmail.com <mailto:mrangelo.fed...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> currently I perform operations between different computers in my > >> local network using open SSH; however, when I do this, I always use > >> the computer's IP number to reference the host. (ex: sudo ssh > >> angelo_dev@10.0.0.15 <mailto:angelo_dev@10.0.0.15>) > >> > >> I'm wondering without yet finding an answer how to do the same thing > >> using (instead of the IP address) the name of the computer .. > >> Do I have to Installase BIND? And then what else is needed? ... > >> > >> > >> Have you tried Multicast DNS < > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_DNS>? See mDNS on Fedora Linux > <https://fedoramagazine.org/find-systems-easily-lan-mdns/> > > > > This is what I was just going to suggest. You need to set on each > computer a unique hostname with "hostnamectl" and make sure that avahi is > running. On the computer you're connecting from, make sure you have > "nss-mdns" installed (I don't know if it is by default). Then you can use > "<myhostname>.local" to connect. If you don't set a hostname, I think the > default is "linux", so you end up with linux.local, linux-2.local, etc. > > > > One thing to be aware of, and not mentioned in the fedora magazine article > is you happen to > have a network with some hosts using IPv6 only you need to change the > nsswitch.conf > host line to mdns_minimal instead of mdns4_minimal. > > > -- > If simple questions can be answered with a simple google query then why > are there so many of them? > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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