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My Belkin router has an option to set a local domain name, which, I suspect, allows me to address hosts within my own network using this domain. By default, this is set to be "Belkin".
Is it possible to call hosts within my network like this, e.g. ping foobar.belkin
instead of ping 192.168.2.4
?
The thing is, my routers internal page shows all set hostnames (so dhclient
seems to work) and the router itself is reachable as router.belkin
, but no other hosts are.
My problem here is that the router knows each hosts name, but the hosts don't know each others name. How can I fix that?
Note: Nmap showed that port udp/53 for DNS is open on my router, but I can't find any way to configure it on the Web-interface.
Add:// It's a "Belkin F7D3302 v1"
Well, can you ping the local clients by IP? – M.Bennett – 2013-05-05T21:43:03.800
Yes, without problem – MechMK1 – 2013-05-07T19:57:24.130
Though I can reach my FRITZ!Box using
http://fritz.box
, I access other machines on its network using.local
rather than.box
. Earlier, with another modem/router, it was.lan
. – Arjan – 2013-05-14T20:44:03.557I think we all got ahead of ourselves answering this question without actually knowing what Belkin product is being used. Which model router are you using? – Qwilson – 2013-05-15T13:09:59.007