Re: Keep a wlan active without Access Point?

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 12:03 +0530, Ravindra Wankar wrote:
> 
> For one, I run apache with virtual host entries for the static IP.
> Secondly, it was just convenient. We develop web based apps and me and
> my colleagues need to access apache on each other's machines.
> Previously I could simply copy-paste a url to someone else in an email
> or a chat window. Now since I have to use localhost for myself, I have
> to keep changing "localhost" to my fully qualified hostname everytime
> I send the url to someone else.

Install nss-mdns, make sure avahi is installed and running, and give out
your mDNS hostname. IP addresses might change, but the local hostname
(in my desktop's case, cookie.local.) will stay the same.