Android doesn't resolve names like machinename.local though. At least not for me - I hit this problem on a Nexus 7 just this weekend. I ended up putting the IP

Android doesn't resolve names like machinename.local though. At least not for me - I hit this problem on a Nexus 7 just this weekend. I ended up putting the IP address in. Perhaps it is application specific, though name resolution seems like something that'd be baked in at a lower level than that. Anyway I tried in Firefox where it attempted to resolve www.machinename.local, and also a VNC application which just timed out.