Small (SoHo) LAN, how to manage local DNS etc.?

[Chris Green]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 11:43:51AM +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On 9 October 2012 11:36, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> >> You should be able to refer to the machines by <name>.local.  So for
> >> example if the machine name is piglet then piglet.local should work.
> >> This is provided by avahi apparently.
> >
> > It doesn't actually work though, at least not on my system as at present
> > set up.  I have tried on both my desktop computer and my laptop
> > computer, the desktop's hostname is 'chris' the laptop's is
> > 'acer-aspire':-
> >
> >     chris$ host chris.local
> >     Host chris.local not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> 
> What does ping chris.local show.  Also
> avahi-browse -at
> 
OK, you're right, "ping chris.local" does work (as do most other things
like "ssh chris.local").  However I'd really prefer "ping chris" to
work.

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Chris Green