pfr You suggesting I set up a static IP?
That's one way to do it: setup the router to hand out the same IP address based on a MAC address--but that you can handle on your own.
What I had in mind (if your dinky box is capable of it) is to have it assign your laptop any address it wants, but, associate the hostname we send it with that IP address. So you can change hackbox.X.Y
to crackbox.X.Y
and the router will answer DNS correctly. You can do this on standard Unix, but, I don't know if your router-box can.
In any case, this would mainly be router config. so better done off-board. This is United_BSD_, not Home-Router BBS. eh?