I haven’t actually set this up on Linux before, but it’s implemented by avahi-daemon so should be easy, but could probably use a hostname option in the config to make it more worthwhile.
Basically, I like to ssh/sftp/etc into my muOS device remotely because that’s usually the easiest way to do some stuff, but it’s always a bit easier to do this when I can use hostname.local names rather than having to figure out the IP address.
It would of course also be helpful for anyone using anything requiring a hostname, like the http filebrowser.
True, but I don’t have a local dns server set up so I can’t do split DNS, and don’t really want to put rfc1918 addresses in external a records. Maybe I should just set up pi-hole anyway though… For now I’ll just use local hosts file or type the address (at least it’s reserved in DHCP so shouldn’t change).
if you’re managing a hosts file you’re half way to running your own zone files… good excuse to setup internal DNS. fwiw, I think dnsmasq is trivial, unbound is easy, bind is well documented, djbdns is FAST. (I use them all)