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Which OS? My home network works perfectly fine this way and I have or had Windows, Linux, BSD, and Mac.

• joshspankit 3y ago
  > clients register themselves during the DHCP handshake and the router's DNS server records the name. This is not always true as it’s a feature of the specific router and not part of the spec. To be fair, it’s a feature that’s now fairly common because of how handy it is. Additionally; many flavours and types of operating systems transparently handle local discovery and resolution just not all of them. For anyone looking to test this, open a terminal and ping the short domain. In the response it will show what domain it actually used. In my case ‘ping proxmox’ shows ‘proxmox.<my personal domain>.com’. This is entirely pedantic but I think interesting if you have a mind for optimizing: The discovery/search does introduce some delay.