[GTALUG] server question

[James Knott]

On 2020-01-22 07:47 AM, Scott Allen via talk wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 23:04, o1bigtenor via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>> I wasn't thinking of IP addresses - - - rather I was thinking of something
>> like example.com but not that. Trying to come up with something so
>> that if machine 1 has the server program that machine 2 can access
>> machine1 just by using machine1 in the browser.
> Do you know that you can just use the IP address in a browser? As long
> as machine 1 has a static IP address, say 192.168.1.10, you can then
> enter 192.168.1.10 as the URL in any browser to reach it. (The address
> has to be local or reachable through routing tables.) If you like, can
> bookmark that address to make it easy to get to.
>

It doesn't even have to be static.  You just have to know what it is.  
Normally, DHCP addresses won't change, unless the lease is allowed to 
expire or something forces a change.