I want to access services on other machines on my home network with just their hostname. In every browser, http://machine
fails, but adding a period in http://machine./
works. Is there a way to avoid adding that extra period?
My setup is a router with DD-WRT w/ DNSmasq turned on, Win7 machines and several Ubuntu VMs. nslookup works fine with just hostname. Remote desktop works, but TightVNC needs the extra period. ssh needs the period. As I said, all my browsers need the extra period.
I'd prefer a solution that doesn't require manually maintaining the hosts file. Thanks.