On 2020-01-22 07:47 AM, Scott Allen via talk wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 23:04, o1bigtenor via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I wasn't thinking of IP addresses - - - rather I was thinking of something like example.com but not that. Trying to come up with something so that if machine 1 has the server program that machine 2 can access machine1 just by using machine1 in the browser. Do you know that you can just use the IP address in a browser? As long as machine 1 has a static IP address, say 192.168.1.10, you can then enter 192.168.1.10 as the URL in any browser to reach it. (The address has to be local or reachable through routing tables.) If you like, can bookmark that address to make it easy to get to.
It doesn't even have to be static. You just have to know what it is. Normally, DHCP addresses won't change, unless the lease is allowed to expire or something forces a change.