Using names, not IP addresses, in home network

[D. R. Evans]

Dotan Cohen said the following at 04/12/2009 11:46 AM :
> I have a few computers on a home network, and currently the router
> assigns them IP addresses with DHCP. However, I find that every few
> weeks the addresses change. How can I name the machines names such as
> "laptop" and "ety" instead of useing IP addresses? Everything that
> I've googled seems quite out of date. Thanks.

Assuming that you have root access to the machine that is handing out the
IP addresses:

edit /etc/dhcpd.conf to hand out names (and you might as well make the IP
addresses static at the same time).

It doesn't matter of the google articles you found are old. This stuff
hasn't changed in forever.

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