ssh connections stopped working

[Tom H]

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 3 December 2010 22:05, David Fletcher <dave at thefletchers.net> wrote:
>>
>> I hadn't put the son's computer back into /etc/hosts!
>
> I find that I do not need to put computers on the local network into
> /etc/hosts.  If the computer name is piglet then I can just use
> piglet.local.  I must admit though that I am not sure what it is that
> provides this capability.

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