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)
This is now added in Andromeda amongst other network changes. However please keep in mind that some firewalls and browser combinations may stop this from working it seems.