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Re: Needless DNS queries

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On Tue 07 Jun 2022 at 17:01:21 (+0200), Dieter Rohlfing wrote:
> When a client queries for a domain and the answer is NXDOMAIN, there is
> immediately a second query with the original domain name, but suffixed
> with the domain name of my home network.
> 
> Example:
> 
> 1. query: www.example.com (result NXDOMAIN)
> 2. query: www.example.com.home.lan (result NXDOMAIN)
> 
> home.lan is the domain name of my home network, /etc/resolv.conf
> contains the following line:
> 
> >search home.lan
> 
> When I delete this line from /etc/resolv.conf, then the second query
> doesn't appear, but I loose the ability to use unqualified hostnames to
> refer to local clients. :-((

Try using just .home (or .corp or .mail) on its own, instead of .home.lan.

https://features.icann.org/addressing-new-gtld-program-applications-corp-home-and-mail

Cheers,
David.

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Needless DNS queries Dieter Rohlfing <dr-erc@gmx.net> - 2022-06-07 17:10 +0200
  Re: Needless DNS queries David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-06-07 17:30 +0200
  Re: Needless DNS queries Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-06-07 17:40 +0200
    Re: Needless DNS queries Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2022-06-07 18:10 +0200
    Re: Needless DNS queries Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-06-07 19:00 +0200
      Re: Needless DNS queries Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2022-06-07 19:40 +0200
        Re: Needless DNS queries Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2022-06-08 00:10 +0200
      Re: Needless DNS queries Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2022-06-08 00:20 +0200
        Re: Needless DNS queries Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2022-06-08 03:00 +0200
          Re: Needless DNS queries Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-06-08 03:10 +0200
            Re: Needless DNS queries Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2022-06-08 07:30 +0200
  Re: Needless DNS queries Dieter Rohlfing <dr-erc@gmx.net> - 2022-06-14 15:10 +0200

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