Hubitat.local < has never worked for me?

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Model (C8) platform:2.3.8.133

Not sure why anyone have an idea ?
Need to change a network setting in router?

I can access the router using : http://router.asus.com
But Not .. http://Hubitat.local.com or http://Hubitat.local

I even changed it in settings/hub/details < still no work
Only way I can acsess it is through IP < works fine but still weird.

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" The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) reserves the use of the domain name label .local as a special-use domain name for hostnames in local area networks that can be resolved via the Multicast DNS name resolution protocol."

That means you don't have (or are blocking) a "zeroconf" resolver. These days it's mDNS (and used to be called Bonjour when Apple created it.)

Do you have multiple Hubitat hubs?? Because they might all be using the same .local name and messing with you. :slight_smile:

Settings: Hub Details:
Screenshot 2024-03-31 at 1.37.17 PM

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Sorry for got to say its a windows computer ..

Nope just the one HUB ..

Settings: Hub Details:
Screenshot 2024-03-31 at 1.37.17 PM

Yeah .. I have changed it to myhome and other things .. and it was org. : hubitat
None of them work .. only IP works ..
I can access the router using : http://router.asus.com
But Not .. http://Hubitat.local.com or http://Hubitat.local

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Is security enabled? Not sure, but that might have an impact…?

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No .. I never did that ..

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For Windows, you probably need to enter the IP address and URL into the localhost file.

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well .. I guess that would work ..
Seems to me seeing other people suggest using that link. And many of the other form comments.
The thing is weird that I can't get it to work.

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Have you setup a local DNS at all, like dnsmasq on a rpi or something similar?

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Didn't know you had too ...
I will check it look into it thanks

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This is not using mDNS (Bonjour) for name resolution. This is simply your Asus router intercepting the http request and then displaying your router’s web config page.

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It's not that you need a DNS setup for it to work, more that if you had set one up it may interfere with being able to access the hub in this way. Like you I believe it should work without any additional setup required.

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I'm a non-Windows household. I've got Apple and Linux and while I had never had reason to try "hubitat.local" before this Topic, it does work for me using the name(s) I set in Hub Details. I'm not surprised and imagine that reflects exactly what you mention:

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