DNS Suffix

DNS Suffix

If your devices are connected to the same network but are failing to communicate to each other via their network name, you may have run into a DNS suffix problem. The typical symptom of this problem is that devices can communicate with each other via IP addresses but not via network names.

The different solutions we have found so far are the following:

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