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by fragmede 4062 days ago
> Router management pages

For home use, many current generation router/AP boxes are powerful enough to run a local DNS server (in addition to DHCP) and often hardcode a DNS entry for configuration, eg http://router

> internal network stuff in places small enough

The .local domain (ie http://hostname.local) has been a functional out of the box for many years now on osx/linux and NetBIOS have worked on Windows since forever.