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On my LAN I have a host named pleurotus. I can ping pleurotus.local but not pleurotus-- the host isn't found. Is there a way to make .local implicit, perhaps by putting some magical entry in the hosts file?

Paul A.
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Add search local to the file /etc/resolv.conf.

muclux
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  • cat /etc/resolv.conf on modern systems returns `# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)

    DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN`. Are you sure?

     – N0rbert Feb 25 '18 at 11:05
  • Apparently I need to use the resolvconf command with the -a option. But resolvconf -a search local just sits there. – Paul A. Feb 25 '18 at 15:39
  • I've tried "resolvconf -a search.local" and "resolvconf -a search local" but neither command did anything. – Paul A. Feb 27 '18 at 18:15