On 12 July 2016 at 15:10, Nigel Verity <nigelver...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi > > I'm after a bit of enlightenment from anybody who knows more about > networking than I do - which is probably most of you... > > I have a home network which connects to a radio-based broadband service > (very reliable, incidentally). The data goes from the transceiver into a > router which feeds several devices directly over wired ethernet. One of > these is a switch which services other devices requiring wi-fi. > > When using Filezilla or command line SSH to connect one device to another, > I find that some require the addition of ".local" to the remote hostname > before it's recognised while others don't. For example my desktop is only > recognised as "myDesktop.local", while my RPi2 is only recognised as > "myRPi2", yet both use direct wired ethernet back to the router. > > Can anybody explain, please? > > Linux uses zeroconf/Bonjour for local network discovery. This uses the pseudodomain .local for resolution within a network. The Linux implementation is called Avahi, for reference. You may find that your Pi has the line 'search .local' in /etc/resolv.conf whereas Ubuntu doesn't include it by default. You can add it in the network config if you want to standardise. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood "TBA are particularly glib"
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