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I already took a look at this question. But it didn't help me out.

My aim is to address targets in my home LAN via http://myrouter or ftp://data etc. and not like http://my_computer.my_domain.local as someone pointed out in the question I linked.

I could solve this with editing the hosts file(s), but I want it to work from every client in my network. And since there is more than one, I don't find that a good approach.

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I followed the tutorial on howtogeek, and it works. But only if I manually edit the field DNS-suffix for this connection (freely translated from German) on my Win7 machine. If I don't do it, ping win7 doesn't work on my Win7 computer (but it works from other computers, mobiles on the network).

I have to explicitly add the dns-suffix to make it work like: ping win7.home.lan However after editing the named field, my computer suddenly 'knows himself'. Is there a better way? Or is it normal to edit the field manually, since you are there anyway, because of setting up a static ip?

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    I found a guide on the internet. I'll follow it and see how far I'll come http://www.howtogeek.com/69696/how-to-access-your-machines-using-dns-names-with-dd-wrt/ – jim810 Dec 06 '12 at 15:19
  • I thought the static IP assigned to a host name would be enough for resolution. My Linux server is getting a static IP from DD-WRT, I've given it the name `uvm1`, but I can't resolve that name from my Windows PC; is that basically the same issue you had? – raffian May 17 '13 at 10:19
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    The howtogeek guide totally worked for me, loving it! thx – raffian May 18 '13 at 01:32

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