I have a lot of ESP devices on my net, most are running Tasmota and controlled with Home Assistant.
The Tasmota information screen shows my hostname, for example, as “relay1.local”, but when I do a trace route on relay1.local, the response says the hostname is “relay1.home”.
C:\Users\steve>tracert relay1.local
Tracing route to relay1.local [192.168.1.11]
1 242 ms 1 ms 3 ms relay1.home [192.168.1.11]
Trace complete.
Traceroute on “relay1.home” results in the same, but significantly faster:
C:\Users\steve>tracert relay1.home
Tracing route to relay1.home [192.168.1.11]
1 1 ms 1 ms 17 ms relay1.home [192.168.1.11]
Trace complete.
Tracing the IP address is also quite a bit faster than the .local:
C:\Users\steve>tracert 192.168.1.11
Tracing route to relay1.home [192.168.1.11]
1 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms relay1.home [192.168.1.11]
Trace complete.
So here’s a couple of questions.
- Why does the Tasmota information screen say the hostname is “relay1.local” while a ping, tracert or IP scan all say it is “relay1.home”?
- Does it matter? The ping times are about the same for all three addresses for “relay1” while the tracert of “relay1.local” is usually longer.