<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 23 Mar 2021, at 4:30 am, Simon Hobson <<a href="mailto:linux@thehobsons.co.uk" class="">linux@thehobsons.co.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">James <<a href="mailto:jam@tigger.ws" class="">jam@tigger.ws</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">What I found most interesting was that as soon as internet service resumed all returned to normal.<br class="">My local network has DNS and DHCP server. I just queried lest we tried to access <a href="http://somewhere.strange" class="">http://somewhere.strange</a><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">What's doing your DNS, where is .home defined ?<br class=""><br class="">I've seen some routers do "interesting"* stuff when the internet is down - basically intercepting everything and directing you to a router page to tell you the internet is down with a big button to click to "re-connect".<br class=""><br class="">* The usual phrase I use for these brain dead ideas is not suitable for a family friendly environment !<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">To answer an earlier question: no https is involved in ANY of my stuff.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I <i class="">use dnsmasq for dns, which is where all my .home stuff is</i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><i class="">I use Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server because dnsmasq does it wrong. (Does not say the right things for most clients to get the dns server - linux clients do not get the 'correct'' dns server, mac clients DO ??</i></div><div class=""><i class="">'Twas easier to use the distro (suse) package than to go spelunking with wireshark)</i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><i class="">The router is not playing silly games (it's too dumb, heaping scorn on telstra's nbn router (National Broardband Network in Australia) but firefox gives me utter shonets:</i></div><div class=""><i class="">I type </i></div><div class=""><i class="">192.168.5.33</i></div><div class=""><i class="">in the address bar and get a google page on 192.168.5.33 (There are lots of entries including many correcting my misspeling of "1" as "33"</i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><i class="">James</i></div></body></html>