On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 7:02 AM <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 10:21:45AM +0000, mick.crane wrote: > > Hi, > > Obviously I don't understand the internet and don't know what I'm doing. > > Honestly. Who does, these days? > > > The other day changed the ISP's (Sky) router to have fibre connection. > > I have a PC with apache2 presenting an index.html which is a page of > links > > to various documents and websites. > > The link to e.g. the BBC works fine but the link to my roundcube install > on > > the same PC shows gstatic.com in the address bar and a blank page. This > > seems to be something to do with the ISP using google to cache external > > websites. > > To try to debug those things, you'll have to try small steps. How is your > page's URL pointing to your Roundcoube written? Most probably with a name: > > - try to find how this name is being resolved to an IP: > > host <your-local-roundcube-name> > > (perhaps "host -a" and post the results here if you can't make heads or > tails of them). > > Does the result correspond to your expected IP address? > > If not, you'll have to fix your DNS resolution thingy. AFAIK, pfsense can > do that. > > If yes, more digging is in order. > > [...] > > > The way I'm doing things is a bodge as I don't have a proper internet > facing > > domain for these local things. >
You can use the domain home.arpa which is reserved for local networks. > > This shouldn't be necessary. On the contrary, having a local net you have > control of can be very convenient. > > > Perhaps it is something about using the ISP's DNS for resolving things? > > regards > > Yes, but you should be able to override that at your whim with pfsense. > > Cheers > -- > t > -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀
