Re: Resolving names

2025-05-04 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2025-05-04 at 08:21 -0500, Patrick Dohman wrote: > Sorry it seems that a pet alligator is actually a lot of work ;) LOL, quite an apt description -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailb

Re: Resolving names

2025-05-04 Thread Patrick Dohman
> On May 1, 2025, at 4:11 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 5/1/25 1:52 AM, Tim via users wrote: >> The number of times I've tried to access my printer's configuration >> server, and had to fight with Firefox to stop searching the internet >> for a shop selling that model printer, is a right pain.

Re: Resolving names

2025-05-02 Thread Patrick Dohman
> On May 1, 2025, at 3:52 AM, Tim via users > wrote: > > Tim: If I were configuring my DHCP server to hand it out to clients, that would be the following in the dhcpd.conf file: option domain-name "internal."; It's going by proper standards that a domain name

Re: Resolving names

2025-05-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/1/25 1:52 AM, Tim via users wrote: The number of times I've tried to access my printer's configuration server, and had to fight with Firefox to stop searching the internet for a shop selling that model printer, is a right pain. Even when I've typed http://laserprinter/ as a fully complete *

Re: Resolving names

2025-05-01 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >>> If I were configuring my DHCP server to hand it out to clients, that >>> would be the following in the dhcpd.conf file: >>> >>> option domain-name "internal."; >>> >>> It's going by proper standards that a domain name ends with a dot. & again, Tim: >> That may not be needed, now. But

Re: Resolving names

2025-05-01 Thread Barry Scott
> On 1 May 2025, at 07:23, Mike Wright wrote: > > (fqdn). > > How utilities such as as nslookup and dig figure out what to do when the > final dot on a fqdn is missing is a mystery to me. Perhaps they always add a > dot then trim the name to have no more than one. IDK The lack of a traili

Re: Resolving names

2025-04-30 Thread Mike Wright
On 4/30/25 22:21, Mike Wright wrote: On 4/30/25 22:06, Tim via users wrote: Follow-up... On Thu, 2025-05-01 at 11:53 +0930, Tim via users wrote: If I were configuring my DHCP server to hand it out to clients, that would be the following in the dhcpd.conf file:    option domain-name  "internal

Re: Resolving names

2025-04-30 Thread Javier Perez
Thanks It is working now! pepebuho@pepewin:~$ ping bloody.internal PING bloody.internal (192.168.1.5) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from bloody.internal (192.168.1.5): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.440 ms 64 bytes from bloody.internal (192.168.1.5): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.195 ms 64 bytes from bloody

Re: Resolving names

2025-04-30 Thread Mike Wright
On 4/30/25 22:06, Tim via users wrote: Follow-up... On Thu, 2025-05-01 at 11:53 +0930, Tim via users wrote: If I were configuring my DHCP server to hand it out to clients, that would be the following in the dhcpd.conf file: option domain-name "internal."; It's going by proper standards th

Re: Resolving names

2025-04-30 Thread Tim via users
Follow-up... On Thu, 2025-05-01 at 11:53 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > If I were configuring my DHCP server to hand it out to clients, that > would be the following in the dhcpd.conf file: > > option domain-name "internal."; > > It's going by proper standards that a domain name ends with a do

Re: Resolving names

2025-04-30 Thread Tim via users
Tim: > > You could certainly whack ".internal" onto the end of your hostnames to > > make up a FQDN without issues. And even though it's a long thing to > > type, you can make use the search domain feature so it's configured > > into the networking parameters, and you only ever have to type the >

Re: Resolving names

2025-04-30 Thread Javier Perez
> You could certainly whack ".internal" onto the end of your hostnames to > make up a FQDN without issues. And even though it's a long thing to > type, you can make use the search domain feature so it's configured > into the networking parameters, and you only ever have to type the > hostname. > >

Re: Resolving names

2025-04-30 Thread Tim via users
Samuel Sieb: >> That shouldn't work. A name without a domain isn't valid. You >> need to set things up so there's a domain (and don't use >> local!). You can have a default domain, so that bare names will >> automatically be tried with the default domain. Javier Perez: > Sorry. It works. I do

Re: Resolving names

2025-04-29 Thread Javier Perez
On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 4:53 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 4/29/25 1:10 AM, Javier Perez wrote: > > Help. Looking at the about systemd-resolved question prompted me to try > > to clear a problem I am having with local DNS. > > My home system have few pcs and other devices, some of them with static

Re: Resolving names

2025-04-29 Thread Javier Perez
> > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 4:12 AM Barry wrote: > > > On 29 Apr 2025, at 09:11, Javier Perez wrote: > >  > Help. Looking at the about systemd-resolved question prompted me to try to > clear a problem I am having with local DNS. > My home system have few pcs and other devices, some of them w

Re: Resolving names

2025-04-29 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2025-04-29 at 03:10 -0500, Javier Perez wrote: > Help. Looking at the about systemd-resolved question prompted me to > try to clear a problem I am having with local DNS. > My home system have few pcs and other devices, some of them with > static ip addresses set at my local router. > My si

Re: Resolving names

2025-04-29 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/29/25 1:10 AM, Javier Perez wrote: Help. Looking at the about systemd-resolved question prompted me to try to clear a problem I am having with local DNS. My home system have few pcs and other  devices, some of them with static ip addresses set at my local router. My situation is that name

Re: Resolving names

2025-04-29 Thread Barry
On 29 Apr 2025, at 09:11, Javier Perez wrote:Help. Looking at the about systemd-resolved question prompted me to try to clear a problem I am having with local DNS.My home system have few pcs and other  devices, some of them with static ip addresses set at my local router.My situation is that name

Resolving names

2025-04-29 Thread Javier Perez
Help. Looking at the about systemd-resolved question prompted me to try to clear a problem I am having with local DNS. My home system have few pcs and other devices, some of them with static ip addresses set at my local router. My situation is that name resolution does not always work. For example