I'm using this -- <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/rainbow-dns">https://www.npmjs.com/package/rainbow-dns</a><span></span><br><br>On Friday, February 19, 2016, Sam Rakowski <<a href="mailto:devnull@iamdevnull.info">devnull@iamdevnull.info</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
On Fri, February 19, 2016 06:10, Jim Lynch wrote:<br>
> For a special purpose I'm going to have a Netgear router not connected<br>
> to the internet for local communications using DHCP. I'll have a server<br>
> connected via Ethernet and clients using mostly WIFI. I've seen times<br>
> where in similar setups something assigns a host name to the server. In<br>
> those cases, I can connect to the server via a host name rather than an<br>
> IP address. I'd like to do that for this situation. I can't seem to<br>
> find the right words to get a search engine to tell me how. I'm not<br>
> running a DNS server.<br>
><br>
> I'm thinking the server might be advertising the name but I don't really<br>
> know how it all happens.<br>
<br>
You might be thinking of something like DNSmasq[1].<br>
<br>
Consider running a DNS server, though. There are simpler ones, like<br>
djbdns[2] that might only take 30 minutes to get running.<br>
<br>
1 - <a href="http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html" target="_blank">http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html</a><br>
2 - <a href="https://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html" target="_blank">https://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html</a><br>
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