Ping RaspPi using Hostname _without_ .local?

[tam94131]

Hi all,

At a previous location, I had a network of RaspPis happily talking to each other (during REST calls) using the RaspPi's hostname -- but without ".local" -- and all worked fine. I've now moved to a new location (which has a new network) and I can no longer use just the hostname (e.g., "ping some-hostname"). Instead, I have to append a ".local" to the hostname (e.g., "ping some-hostname.local") or use the IP address.

Is there something I'm doing wrong, or was I supposed to be always using ".local". Some of python programs to change if that's the case....

Insight appreciated!

[DougieLawson]

If you want that you'll need to hard-code IP addresses in /etc/hosts.

[jj_0]

Add

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search .local

to /etc/resolv.conf, or maybe to a new.conf file in e.g.

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/usr/lib/systemd/resolved.conf.d/

. More info at https://www.freedesktop.org/software/sy ... .conf.html.

[epoch1970]

Add

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search .local

to /etc/resolv.conf

I can't test. Does this work?

According to this I would believe a few extra steps are required.
Not a great idea, anyway.

[tam94131]

@dougie, I'm trying not to have hard-coded IP addresses anywhere which is why I'm using hostname. Of that is not working too well.

@jj_0, I add 'search .local' to the config file and it doesn't seem to anything

I guess it doesn't hurt that any time I refer to RaspPi on the intranet that I suffix the hostname with '.local'. It doesn't hurt but I will have to change a bunch of programs....