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Just use home.arpa from https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8375 with a custom DNS server or host file. Or one of the many dynamic DNS systems.

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Sure, because a custom DNS server is easy to set up.

Depends on your skill set. If you're ok with *nix, then PowerDNS is pretty simple to work with:

https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns

It's also fairly complete, used in production by some pretty big ISPs.

For a light weight approach instead, Dnsmasq is good:

http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html

It's what most home routers (and lots of other stuff) embed. :)

Ok, fair enough. It’s fairly simple to set up.

It’s just a bit of a pain to maintain if the only thing you care about is connecting to server nr 192.168.0.x

I could certainly do it, but there’s 5 services in my house I’d care to connect to, and remembering 1-5 is just as easy as giving them all names. The marginal gains are very low.

Oh, I very much agree. For very small local networks in a flat address space, manually remembering stuff works ok.

Personally I tend to throw the more stable IP addresses in /etc/hosts, as that's simple too. :)

It's actually pretty easy. I was able to set one up when I was a teenager, almost 25 years ago, in the early days of the commercial Internet. It is even simpler now.

Ever heard of dnsmasq? Comes with many home routers. Puts a dns entry for each host that gets it's ip address via dhcp, plus your static mappings.

Yes, it is.

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