On Monday, 6 March 2023 08:24:35 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > On 06/03/2023 08:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 07:54:51 +0000, Wols Lists wrote: > >> There's another file - can't remember its name - that tells your > >> resolver what to try in what order - the hosts file, dns, what dhcp > >> told you, etc etc, so your resolver might not be using dns the way you > >> think. > > > > Do you mean /etc/nsswitch.conf? > > Ah yes. Any idea why Firefox seems to ignore it? Whenever I try to > browse to local machines in /etc/hosts, firefox gives me a google search > page which is a bloody nuisance. If I type a VALID ADDRESS in the > ADDRESS BAR, that's where I expect to go! Not some damn random search page! > > Cheers, > Wol
I suspect the behaviour you noticed is related to FF functionality like TRR (Trusted Recursive Resolver) farming all your DNS queries over to the cloudfarce honeypot. Have a look here if you want to disable it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox/Privacy#Disable/ enforce_'Trusted_Recursive_Resolver'
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