Names of machines in the local domain are not resolved

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Hi,

my machines are in a local domain “lan”. I have the problem that on my QNAP NAS (QTS 5.2.10.3577) local names are not resolved. If I run for example:

nslookup myMachine

I get => ** server can’t find myMachine : NXDOMAIN

If I run instead

nslookup myMachine.lan

I get => Address: 192.168.1.144

I think this does not work because the search domain that the dhcp server on mu router sends is not set. On other machines resolv.conf looks like this:

nameserver 192.168.1.1
search lan
(or domain lan)

On the QNAP device I only see:

nameserver 127.0.1.1

And in resolv.dnsmasq

nameserver 192.168.1.1@eth0

In the past this was working.

Has someone an idea how to fix this?

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You basically need a hosts file on your local machine that maps local names and addresses. Or if your local DNS server has the ability to set up aliases like that was well you could do it there.

Nslookup using myMachine.lan works because it’s the local domain that Bonjour/mDNS uses and the Bonjour processes keep record with the local domain.