[X4U] IP address on local network

[Doug McNutt]

At 09:21 -0400 4/26/09, Dave Bonhoff wrote:
>You are correct, the end result is essentially the same.

Nobody has mentioned it but fixed IP addresses allow you go give your computers names that refer to the IP addresses and they will stick.

A simple way is to set up a hosts file in /etc/hosts for each machine. That's just a list of names and IP addresses in dotted decimal notation.

Another, a whole lot more geeky, is to run bind, Berkley internet name daemon, on a machine. It's possible to create your own private domain and software that goes looking for the likes of "Earth.suntide" will work. That provides another advantage in that external IP addresses remain stored in a local cache and are updated only when the external domain name system, DNS, asks  that they be updated.
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