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

[Alex Carver]

DNSMasq using all the defaults plus a custom hosts file is probably one
of your fastest ways.  Set up your router as just an access point (turn
off internal DHCP), hang your laptop off one port and run DNSMasq on the
laptop.  It will respond to DHCP requests on the network and then you
can assign it to be the authoritative DNS server and leave the router as
a router (DNS and routing don't have to be on the same machine).

On 2016-02-19 10:27, Jim Lynch wrote:
> Thanks for all the suggestions.  Guess I should have started earlier.  I
> hoped it would be something quick.  Neither of my spare routers are/can
> be running anything other than default code so that's out.  I don't have
> control on all of the clients and some will be Windows, so host files
> are not a real option. No time to figure out a DHCP server nor how to
> turn a laptop into a router. I'll just have to distribute IP addresses. 
> No big deal.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim.
> 
> On 02/19/2016 06:10 AM, 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 ...
> 
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