[Lxc-users] Networking between host and container

[Rob van der Hoeven]

> What is the best way to broadcast container's hostname to host? 
> I want to be able to ssh from host into the container using its 
> hostname as handle, instead of an IP address.
> 
> I'm using the default template in Ubuntu 12.04. 
> I have made a container template that I want to reuse.

My setup uses the container name as its handle.
If I create a container like this: 

cd /var/lib/lxc
mkdir test
/usr/lib/lxc/templates/lxc-debian-box -n test -p /var/lib/lxc/test

I can access it with:

ssh root at test.freedom.box

Maybe this is what you want?
My setup uses dnsmasq to do some DHCP/DNS magic. 
Wrote an article about my setup:

http://freedomboxblog.nl/installing-lxc-dhcp-and-dns-on-my-freedombox/

Rob.
http://freedomboxblog.nl