openSUSE Forums: SSH computer name/domain/hostname

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SSH computer name/domain/hostname Jan 19th 2013, 01:24 I would like to apologise in advance since I'm not really able to express my problem using proper terminology. I'm interested whether it's possible to adjust settings of sshd or any other application so that I'll be able to ssh login through LAN by using: ssh username@elephant instead of: ssh username@212.235.209.220 where 212.235.209.220 is static address of said computer on LAN and elephant is a name of the computer (it's also returned as hostname when using hostname command). I wasn't successful googling it since I don't know what to search for in the first place. I'm asking you in addition if anyone could briefly explain me what do the terms domain, hostname, fqdn mean in respect to ssh. Thanks a lot!

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