removing the .local in local network name serving

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Published on 2009-12-15T20:07:09Z Indexed on 2010/04/11 20:13 UTC
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I have several local machines; I use a OSX 10.6 machine to do most of the serving. Annoyingly, it postfixes its network name with .local.

How would I set up a system so that I could access it by its hostname?

server: httpd apache2 default install

I am accessing it with a web browser(surprisingly).

also when I ping my osx machine as name, it doesn't work; ping name.local does work.

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