Why do I need to add a period after hostname in order to get DNS resolution to work?

C:\Users\david>nslookup home-pi3
Server:  UnKnown
Address:  192.168.1.1

Name:    home-pi3
Address:  192.168.1.81


C:\Users\david>ping home-pi3
Ping request could not find host home-pi3. Please check the name and try again.

C:\Users\david>ping home-pi3.

Pinging home-pi3 [192.168.1.81] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.81: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.81: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=64

boozedog

Posted 2016-05-18T23:47:26.543

Reputation: 41

2When you put a dot, you are saying the hostname is fully qualified, otherwise it will add your DNS suffix. What is doing the resolution? DNS or a hostfile? – Paul – 2016-05-19T00:03:31.240

Thanks for your response. I'm using DNS for resolution. How do I know what my DNS suffix is? I checked my Advanced TCP/IP settings and there's no DNS suffix set there. This computer is not part of any AD domain. – boozedog – 2016-05-19T10:25:21.917

The same question was asked the same day, and is here: https://superuser.com/questions/1078467/why-cannot-i-ping-computer-name-without-dot/1078468

– Paul – 2016-05-19T10:32:58.783

If you want to just use home-pi3 and not home-pi3. then please see my answer to a similar question.

– Frederik Aalund – 2017-10-09T11:55:20.013

Why do I need to add a period after hostname in order to get DNS resolution to work?

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