If you are interested in having your desktop recognize the Zaurus by name rather than typing in the IP address every time you want to ping, ssh or vnc the device, you can simply add a line to your desktop's hosts file.
There are numerous ways to edit a file using various editors or terminal commands. For this situation, the easiest may just be to run the following on the command line as root (Caution: be certain to use >> and not a single > as it will replace your existing file with that line of input and your computer will forget its own name...How troublesome :^( .):
% cp /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.orig # Make a backup of file first % echo "192.168.129.201 zaurus.localdomain zaurus" >> /etc/hosts
To check try the ping command from before
% ping -c 3 zaurus
You should have output similar as before.
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