Thank you all for your input! I currently use a Huawei D-20 EC506 Wireless Broadband Gateway (3G broadband), and it doesn't support adding IP numbers and hostnames. Hence the problem.
@ Øystein Problem solved. Thank you! Your post made it all come back to me. :) I totally forgot that I'm running Avahi on the Ubuntu boxes. All that is needed to get it working is installing libnss-mdns: apt-get install libnss-mdns Which will install the following packages: avahi-daemon dbus dbus-x11 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libavahi-core5 libdaemon0 libdbus-1-3 libnss-mdns There is no need to reboot. The Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon will be started, and everything works immediately after the install is completed. ping HOSTNAME ssh HOSTNAME and http://HOSTNAME/ It works with or without .local. -- Mats
