On 2025-01-19 21:36, George at Clug wrote:
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.
Ah, in Vivaldi settings there is the option, google services "DNS to
help resolve navigation errors"
Maybe that is where the gstatic.com came from.
mick