All of a sudden, http://freenas.local stopped working however, the IP address still worked.
ping would respond like this:
ping freenas.local
Pinging freenas.local [92.242.140.21] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
What's that IP address? Nothing on my network...
tracert shows this:
tracert freenas.local
Tracing route to freenas.local [92.242.140.21]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms HughesRouter004 [10.190.87.249]
2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
3 14 ms 8 ms 8 ms unallocated.barefruit.co.uk [92.242.140.21]
Apparently this is my ISP's (Verizon FIOS) DNS server doing this...
The fix: I updated my router settings to use google's DNS servers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
