access computer via name without editing hosts file?

[Matrix Mole]

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Craig White wrote:
> the customary way of doing this would be to use say your Gentoo box to
> run both a full DNS and DHCP server (the ISC versions) and to configure
> DHCP to update DNS when it hands out an IP address.

Thank you for the advice. I've installed the ISC dhcp server along with
bind for DNS control. I'll spend the next few days figuring out what I'm
doing with those programs and how to configure and set them up.

Matrix Mole
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