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    Irfan.. thank you so much for this detailed answer. I can now see how DNS lookups are influenced by many factors. Interesting that Windows will not do a DNS lookup on a bare hostname but Android will due to different DNS resolver code. Cheers. Commented Nov 4, 2019 at 21:44
  • For reference: Starting from November 2021, Android resolver supports mDNS .local resolution. Commented Jun 5, 2023 at 19:47