Stream: homelab

Topic: pi-hole local DNS records versus multicast DNS (mDNS)

view this post on Zulip Ron Waldon-Howe (Feb 22 2025 at 10:15):

TIL .local hostnames are auto-managed, and manually-set .local hostnames don't work in a few places including pi-hole's "local DNS records" functionality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_DNS

I changed my hostnames to .lan instead and now the pi-hole records are working perfectly

view this post on Zulip Scott Abbey (Feb 22 2025 at 11:06):

.internal is officially supported as a non-routable TLD now

view this post on Zulip Matthew Sanabria (Feb 22 2025 at 14:57):

.internal is the way. I've had similar issues with .local.

view this post on Zulip Matthew Sanabria (Feb 22 2025 at 14:58):

Also there was an issue with systemd-resolved not resolving short names correctly even if the search domain was correct. It was frustrating.

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