ssh question

[Karl Auer]

On Tue, 2016-10-04 at 10:46 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
> You can always setup .ssh/config with the hostname you want to point
> to the IP address like this:
> 
> Host ngc
>    HostName 10.42.204.47
>    user root

This solution, like editing /etc/ssh/ssh_config, solves the problem
only for ssh. I don't know what the OP's Pi does, but if it has (say)
an ssh server and a web server on it, the OP might want to be able to
access both services via a name rather than an IP address.

Adding the name to /etc/hosts on a system makes the name usable with
all programs on that system. Adding the name to the DNS makes it usable
for any program with access to the DNS (broadly speaking - DNS servers
can impose limits).

Regards, K.

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