ssh connections stopped working

[Colin Law]

On 4 December 2010 09:33, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> avahi

Excellent, thanks for that.  Looking it up has lead me to discover the
command avahi-browse to show connected machines.  Specifically
avahi-browse -at
How did I survive without it?
Oh dear, I seem to have engaged blog mode.  Sorry.

Colin