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My Own DNS Server at Home – Part 1: IPv4

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220 points speckx | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 19:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.3s | source
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varikin ◴[05 Sep 25 23:48 UTC] No.45145062[source]▶
Have you had issues with the .jhw TLD on Apple devices? I have my own DNS for my homelab with CoreDNS with house.hill as my domain. My house is on a hill. But .hill is not a TLD, and both my macbook and iphone stopped resolving it quite a while ago.
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1. akerl_ ◴[06 Sep 25 13:54 UTC] No.45149298[source]▶
That generally suggests they’re not pointing at the resolver you have set to handle that domain. Otherwise your apple devices can’t tell a valid TLD from an invalid one: they just launch the DNS lookup and let the server tell them.

The exception to this is .local, which you shouldn’t use for internal systems because it will confuse the heck out of them in weird ways, because .local is by RFC not meant to be used in that way.