We have a Centos intranet ( small business ) server and i was wondering if there was possible to access it like typing to the browser something.local ? DNS is not enabled on the server ? could that be the problem ? if anyone know could you please teach me how i could change it . semi novice here

Thank you for all the help..

You either need to set up a DNS server or add the entry in your client's "/etc/hosts" file

You could add something.local to your windows hosts file.

@ \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts


Or you can set up a simple DNS server on your centos box and point your workstations to it. Dnsmasq is easy for this.

Computers work using IP addresses, not names. When you type in a name the OS needs help to map this back to an IP address. The first thing the computer will check is its local hosts file, to see if the name you typed has an entry. If it does, you're golden, if it doesn't, then the next thing the computer does is ask its DNS server to interpret the name.

So, you have two places you can add this entry:
1) the hosts file on the machine
2) the DNS server that the machine is using for name resolution

If you run your own local DNS server, then #2 would probably be the easiest option. If you're using a public DNS, eg: openDNS, google, or the DNS server(s) from your ISP, then you'll need to use #1, and add an entry in the hosts file of every machine you want to do this on.

well this is on a intranet local network and they have dns running but i have set up a few server and all using dhcp with no problem and hostname resolve to correct hostname so this puzzels me but i did not set up the server so maby that could also be the problem

If what you say is true, then you are likely using dynamic dns to send the hostname to the dns server. You will want to make sure your configuration is correct for that to work.

I forget exactly how to do it, but google turned this up:

https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27039

Well i will try something out.. and meanwhile thank you all for the help and if you know of anything else that might help please do tell ..