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Previously, I was able to resolve the ip address of machines on my local network using just "hostname" (where "hostname" is the name of the machine). For some reason, it seems that I can no longer resolve the address of machines without adding the ".local" suffix.
If I try "ping hostname", I get "could not find host...", but if I try "ping hostname.local" the machine is pinged as expected.
This seems to happen on every machine on my network. I have checked all the hostnames and none of them have ".local" appended to them. Also, the hostnames all will resolve with just "hostname" if I try to ping the machine that I am currently on.
As far as I know, nothing has changed on my network. Does anyone know what the cause of this could be? Could there be a network-wide issue or does this sound like an issue on a per-machine basis? The machines that I have tried are running Windows, OS X, and Debian. The router that I am using is a Netgear R7000.
clcain
Posted 2015-09-09T08:12:13.777
Reputation: 73