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
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.
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:
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?