Yes, of course. I took it as a given that any alternative solution would have to be automatic and so manual configuration of hosts wasn't an option. If you thin

Yes, of course. I took it as a given that any alternative solution would have to be automatic and so manual configuration of hosts wasn't an option. If you think it is an option, then the answer to your question is obvious: mDNS does it automatically, so you don't have to maintain the mapping and it works for automatic IP address assignments.