I used to give all my machines permanent IP addresses and added entries in my domain for them. (I have /24 globally routable IP addresses.)
I then got lazy and let most be assigned dynamically. But not servers. Now I'm even more lazy. I'm starting to use .local. So machines declare their hostname and mDNS / bonjour gets to resolve name.local. Neat. Tonight I'm creating an experimental NextCloud server. Let's say it's hostname is nc. - ping nc.local works - ssh nc.local works - host nc.local works - Firefox and even links cannot see nc.local. Why is that? Firefox is set to use the default DNS, not Firefox's own. If I give Firefox the actual IP address, Apache balks because it cares about the DNS name used. But that's further than nc.local got. I guess Firefox doesn't do mDNS. Why would that be? Or am I making a wrong guess? Clearly I could give to computer a real DNS name, but I'm kind of stubborn and want to understand what's going on. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
