Any decent network stack supports mDNS and you don't need to enter an ip address to access your gateway or any other hosts in your lan. I don't even know what'

Any decent network stack supports mDNS and you don't need to enter an ip address to access your gateway or any other hosts in your lan. I don't even know what's my workstation's IPv4 address. I just connect to desktop.local and my NAS with nas.local