Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Why does dnsmasq append .home to a plain hostname?

2019-10-27 Thread Sean Warner
Hello, I did some more testing and confirmed that the .home was being sent to the dhcp client (my laptop) by the dhcp server on my router. The Windows OS then appended that dns suffix when doing a dns lookup on any unqualified domain names. Actually I was able to confirm Windows order of

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Why does dnsmasq append .home to a plain hostname?

2019-10-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On 23/10/19 8:04 am, Sean Warner wrote: Hello, Thank you for answering Uwe. Your response gave me some good pointers. I don’t think a “default domain” entry is coming from my Windows laptop. It’s Windows 7 Home Premium and that version knows nothing about domains. I googled that and also to

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Why does dnsmasq append .home to a plain hostname?

2019-10-22 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:04:37PM +0100, Sean Warner wrote: > > I don't think a "default domain" entry is coming from my Windows laptop. > It's Windows 7 Home Premium and that version knows nothing about domains. I > googled that and also to see if Chrome maybe adds in a .home if a domain is >

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Why does dnsmasq append .home to a plain hostname?

2019-10-22 Thread Sean Warner
Hello, Thank you for answering Uwe. Your response gave me some good pointers. I don't think a "default domain" entry is coming from my Windows laptop. It's Windows 7 Home Premium and that version knows nothing about domains. I googled that and also to see if Chrome maybe adds in a .home if

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Why does dnsmasq append .home to a plain hostname?

2019-10-22 Thread Uwe Schindler
Hi, The reason for this is a “default domain” entry in the Windows 7 laptop configuration, so it is sent by the client in the case of a missing domain. It was not added by dnsmasq, but by the Windows client. On the other hand, this still resolves, because you seem to also have a “domain