When Your Screen Breaks in the Himalayas

Re:When Your Screen Breaks in the Himalayas by sujay_m on Sunday October 23, 2016 @12:34AM (#12771972)

Cool work around. Just adding another cool way to get laptops IP without ifconfig. AVAHI. install avahi daemon (comes pre installed with most distros) and your laptop can be referred with a domain name(generally LAPTOPNAME.local, "local" domain). By using this you won't have to worry about the changing IPs, you always refer to the laptop with that name. Very handy.

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Re:When Your Screen Breaks in the Himalayas by AnthonBerg on Sunday October 23, 2016 @09:15AM (#12773421)

Great stuff! For the record: Avahi is an implementation of Zeroconf. Bonjour is another implementation from Apple. Bonjour is built into macOS. Bonjour is available for Windows too, for example it can be downloaded somewhere on apple.com. (Personally I just install Cyberduck on all Windows machines I touch - it's an open-source SFTP/FTP/block-storage client and includes Bonjour for Windows.)

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Re:When Your Screen Breaks in the Himalayas by tombh on Sunday October 23, 2016 @02:01AM (#12772205)

Excellent suggestion, especially because it's cross-platform. Thanks, added and acknowledged on the post.

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Re:When Your Screen Breaks in the Himalayas by sujay_m on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @08:05AM (#12787156)

Cool, thanks. But there is no need for acknowledgements in open source community, don't you think.. Anyway, thanks for the post :)

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