[ale] How can I get hostnames on a very temporary LAN?

[James Sumners]

I'm using this -- https://www.npmjs.com/package/rainbow-dns

On Friday, February 19, 2016, Sam Rakowski <devnull at iamdevnull.info> wrote:

>
> On Fri, February 19, 2016 06:10, Jim Lynch wrote:
> > For a special purpose I'm going to have a Netgear router not connected
> > to the internet for local communications using DHCP.  I'll have a server
> > connected via Ethernet and clients using mostly WIFI. I've seen times
> > where in similar setups something assigns a host name to the server.  In
> > those cases, I can connect to the server via a host name rather than an
> > IP address.  I'd like to do that for this situation.  I can't seem to
> > find the right words to get a search engine to tell me how.  I'm not
> > running a DNS server.
> >
> > I'm thinking the server might be advertising the name but I don't really
> > know how it all happens.
>
> You might be thinking of something like DNSmasq[1].
>
> Consider running a DNS server, though. There are simpler ones, like
> djbdns[2] that might only take 30 minutes to get running.
>
> 1 - http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html
> 2 - https://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html
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