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If your router doesn't have this capability, you can install a DNS server on a separate host. People in this community often suggest Pi-hole - which has a section in which you can define static hostnames. As an added bonus, pi-hole will block some undesirable sites.
I see in another comment that your http service is running on a non-standard port number (8080) you can use a reverse proxy like https://nginxproxymanager.com/ to redirect connections to the default http port (80) so that you don't have to specify the port number when you connect.