{"id":12915,"date":"2024-01-26T12:22:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T11:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/?p=12915"},"modified":"2024-01-26T12:22:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T11:22:14","slug":"macos-aka-osx-domain-specific-dns-servers-etc-resolver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2024\/01\/26\/macos-aka-osx-domain-specific-dns-servers-etc-resolver\/","title":{"rendered":"macOS AKA OSX domain-specific DNS servers (\/etc\/resolver)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you VPN to work from home (or even VPN to home from work, you may have issues resolving hostnames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s trivial to solve in macOS AKA OSX.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">E.g.:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><kbd>$ cat \/etc\/resolver\/fritz.box<br>nameserver 10.0.4.1<\/kbd><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The server 10.0.4.1 (e.g. my fritz.box) will do the nameserving for the domain fritz.box, as soon as macOS can see the file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dforge.net\/2013\/01\/30\/osx-domain-specific-dns-servers-etcresolver\/\">https:\/\/www.dforge.net\/2013\/01\/30\/osx-domain-specific-dns-servers-etcresolver\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I worried actually quite a while, until I found that solution. It&#8217;s very nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I actually have to access each local box with &#8220;.fritz.box&#8221; appended, but that&#8217;s not so bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you VPN to work from home (or even VPN to home from work, you may have issues resolving hostnames. It&#8217;s trivial to solve in macOS AKA OSX. E.g.: $ cat \/etc\/resolver\/fritz.boxnameserver 10.0.4.1 The server 10.0.4.1 (e.g. my fritz.box) will do the nameserving for the domain fritz.box, as soon as macOS can see the file. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":false,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[100,324,368,672,1457],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dns","category-macos","category-networking","category-unix-networking","category-vpn"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-3mj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12917,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12915\/revisions\/12917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}