localhost or LAN addresses in /etc/hosts

[H.S.]

Chris G wrote:

> Where/what do I tell that the printer is called Print-1, this is the
> bit that's not clear to me.  Are you saying that I should give it this
> name in teh router configuration?

If you have dnsmasq installed, read its conf file, here is what you are
looking for:
"# Always give the host with ethernet address 11:22:33:44:55:66
# the name fred and IP address 192.168.0.60 and lease time 45 minutes
#dhcp-host=11:22:33:44:55:66,fred,192.168.0.60,45m
"


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