On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Magnus Larsson <magnus AT vista DOT se> wrote:
>
> I have no name server or other such function on my home LAN. All the
> machines are Linux, and I use rsync.

Easy, use Avahi. If these machines are Ubuntu, you probably already have
it. But if not, one of these should install it:

apt-get install avahi-daemon
yum install avahi

Verify that you can ping each machine as "hostname.local". Then use that as
either the Host or ClientNameAlias for each server.

Regards,
Tyler

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