SOLVED - browser --> tower.local not accessible

[Nanobug]

Hello unRAID forums,

 

For some reason, I can't access tower.local it just googles it.
I tried Googling it and searching on the unRAID forums, but for some reason none of the issues was mine, and none of the solutions worked for me.

 

I can still access it from the IP address, just not from the name.
I've added my diagnostics.

TL:DR
Use http://tower.local first and you can access it with just tower.local after.

hades-diagnostics-20201012-2100.zip

Edited October 13, 2020 by Nanobug

[Frank1940]

Check your router and see if the IP address of the server is mapped to the server name.

[Nanobug]

52 minutes ago, Frank1940 said:

Check your router and see if the IP address of the server is mapped to the server name.

I've found something on the Ubiquiti forums. I'll check it out, and let you know if it worked.
Thank you so far.

[Nanobug]

10 hours ago, Frank1940 said:

Check your router and see if the IP address of the server is mapped to the server name.

I've been looking at the Ubiquiti forums, and at the one I found last night, and the solutions didn't work for me. But it wasn't the exact same problem either.
I tried looking all my settings through, but I can't find something called "mapped server name" or something that's close to it.

I have a Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine, if anyone needs to know.

[Nanobug]

New info:
I can ping hades.local and get the correct IP back.
I can't access hades.local in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.
In Vivaldi and Internet Explorer I can.

So there's a setting somewhere I can't find.
Any ideas?

[Nanobug]

I've looked through my router settings as stated, but since it worked in 2 out of 4 browsers, just none of the ones I use daily, it's not a solution for me.
I found stuff on Google's support sites that said to disable "Built-in Asynchronous DNS" in chrome://flags
But that's no longer available in there.

Some said to disable IPv6 on Windows.
Somewhere down the road of the searching and trying one setting at a time, I tried to add the IP of my server in the Windows 10 host file.
192.168.X.X     hades.local
Didn't work either...
 

I tried clearing the host cache in Google Chrome at chrome://net-internals/#dns

None of the above have worked so far.
 

I can't figure out where the setting is that messes it up.
Does anyone know?

[Nanobug]

I've cleared cookies, cache and all that

ipconfig /flushdns

was tried too.
Then I saw somewhere if you but http://tower.local it might work.
It did.

The I tried just tower.local
That worked to.

I had to "teach" it to how to do it, before it could do it.

[Frank1940]

I have all my Servers (and my printers--which is an other story) on static/fixed IP addresses just to avoid such issues.  I then use the IP address to access the server.  The IP address will ALWAYS work!!! 

 

EDIT:   As a piece of information, here is a screen shot of the Ubitiqui ER-X router screen showing the mapping of the server name to the IP address.

 

And you can even convert a DHCP assogned address to a static address if you want to.

Edited October 13, 2020 by Frank1940

[Nanobug]

8 minutes ago, Frank1940 said:

I have all my Servers (and my printers--which is an other story) on static/fixed IP addresses just to avoid such issues.  I then use the IP address to access the server.  The IP address will ALWAYS work!!! 

The IP address always worked, and I also know the IP addresses of the things I have running, It's just nice when it all works, and you have more than one option to access it.