How to navigate to a subdomain without specifying the domain? (in a web browser)

Question

I want to be able to navigate to my home network's web server from my browser without having to type in any domain or top level domain. For example, I want to type:

http://mylinuxbox/

and have it navigate to

http://mylinuxbox.mylocaldomain.tld/

I've been able to configure bind to get the qualified host name to navigate correctly, but I'm not sure how to get the unqualified one to work. I know it's possible because I've seen academic and corporate networks allow you to easily navigate to their internal websites this way.

How can I achieve this using bind?

Answer 1

You need to configure your client computer with a primary DNS suffix and/or set DNS search suffixes in your TCP/IP settings.