A wee while ago I finally learned that using local as my network domain name was inadvisable so I changed it to home.lan. This was done on my router, a UDM. My tablet and phone can access local resources using the new domain name no problem. However, my Mac will only connect to resources using the old .local name. The Search Domains in the network settings shows the home.lan domain so I'm a bit stumped as to how to fix this issue. Any help would be great!
Changed network domain name - minor problem
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not sure but possbily flush the DNS cache on the mac?
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I cannot offer any help but you may want to post it under the Apple software section.
People seem to post Mac qestions\issues under here
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Hopefully you will get more help
People seem to post Mac qestions\issues under here
Apple Software
Talk about Apple macOS, iOS and other Mac specific software.
forums.overclockers.co.uk
Hopefully you will get more help
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not sure but possbily flush the DNS cache on the mac?
Flush DNS: What It Is & How to Easily Clear DNS Cache
Learn how to force a DNS flush on your computer, regardless of its operating system.
That was a good call as I'd completely forgotten about trying that. Unfortunately it didn't make any difference. I really thought it would!
I cannot offer any help but you may want to post it under the Apple software section.
People seem to post Mac qestions\issues under here
Apple Software
Talk about Apple macOS, iOS and other Mac specific software.
Hopefully you will get more help
Will do. I'm still not sure if it's a Mac issue or a network/ router problem but I'll pop into the Apple forum to see if anyone can advise.
To me it sounds like its something the Mac is holding on too as others have updated fine (I maybe wrong lol)
It's definitely the Mac that's got the issue as I can access domain services from other clients including a MBP. No idea what's causing the problem. Might be a browser cache issue which I'll look into later.
Just bumping this thread as the issue is still outstanding despite my best efforts. I can't work out why the Mac will only access local domains on the old domain name - perhaps because it was .local? Has anyone come across this issue before?
Yes, I've got a UDM that resolves the addresses. This works for the various other Macs, tablets, phones and whatnot I have dotted around the house save for my Mac Studio. If I look at the DNS entry for the problem Mac the Search Domains are correct so it's been supplied with the correct form.
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some googlefu produced:
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Also leads to the question, is your router handing out .local to dhcp requests for search suffix config?
How to add some additional DNS search domains without ignoring the DHCP ones?
I just want to add my own list of Search Domains but without overriding the ones returned by the DHCP? As anyone would imagine I already tried to add them to Network > Advanced > DNS but adding them
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Just put a file in /etc/resolver/ with a name such as "searchappend" with these contents:
search example.com
Just don't name the file "com" or some other valid TLD. This works because of OSX's resolver magic. For more info, read through the documentation on your mac with this command:
man 5 resolver
I have a file there called "consul" that looks like this:
nameserver 127.0.0.1
port 8600
search consul
That magically makes it so .consul is appended to the search path, and any resolving for .consul TLDs uses my local nameserver.Also leads to the question, is your router handing out .local to dhcp requests for search suffix config?
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