I had forgotten to mention about "DNS over HTTPS", which besides encrypting DNS traffic, usually use a trusted Internet based DNS service, instead of local DNS settings.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/dns-over-https This maybe why your web browser does not know about local domain names. I had to disable this feature to get systems to discover my local web based servers. It would be nice if this feature would also allow you to define specific exceptions for local web servers/services. George. On Sunday, 19-01-2025 at 21:21 mick.crane wrote: > Hi, > Obviously I don't understand the internet and don't know what I'm doing. > 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. > It seems Sky wants me to login to their network. > Once I've clicked on some ISP's page vivaldi presented then the > roundcube link works. > I have the local network going through pfsense which should be > firewalling and separating the wireless from the local network. > This arrangement has worked for years until changing the router. > The way I'm doing things is a bodge as I don't have a proper internet > facing domain for these local things. > Perhaps it is something about using the ISP's DNS for resolving things? > regards > mick > >
