tell LAN DNS Server what the computer name is
Suppose you have a freshly installed Ubuntu 12.04 computer in your companies LAN with the name `new-box`, which you could set while installing Ubuntu. You want to allow other users to resolve your IP adress from your computers name, e.g.

    #coworker can do:
    $ ssh coworker@new-box
    #instead of:
    $ ssh coworker@192.168.2.123

How to configure your system to tell the DNS server your computer's name?
tell LAN DNS Server what the computer name is
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Suppose you have a freshly installed Ubuntu 12.04 computer in your companies LAN with the name `new-box`, which you could set while installing Ubuntu. You want to allow other users to resolve your IP adress from your computers name, e.g.

    #coworker can do:
    $ ssh coworker@new-box
    #instead of:
    $ ssh coworker@192.168.2.123

How to configure your system to tell the DNS server your computer's name?