Default domain for home network

[Koos Pol]

Op 07-02-2021 om 17:18 schreef tito:
> On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 16:25:43 +0100
> Koos Pol via Unbound-users <unbound-users at lists.nlnetlabs.nl> wrote:
>
>> Background: I have Unbound running on OPNSense as my home network DNS
>> server.
>>
>> Question: Is there a setting to have Unbound resolve plain host names
>> (*cookie*) against my default LAN domain (*sesame.street*)?
>>
>> At home, my laptops use /etc/resolv.conf, so everything without a
>> domain name (*cookie*), automatically gets the local LAN domain for
>> free (*sesame.street*). Now everything resolves just fine:
>> *cookie.sesame.street.**
>> *
>> But I'm running into this issue with the Android phones, which seem
>> to strictly query host names (without the local domain name).
>> (Ofcourse, they are on DHCP so to do have the local domain name.) As
>> a result, Unbound doesn't resolve those queries, but forwards
>> *cookie* to the root servers. Which is kinda silly.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Koos
> Hi,
> something like this should work:
>
> 1) bind the ip of laptops and android phones to their wifi MAC address
>      so that they get handed out always the same ip and your
>       internal unbound as dns server
>
> 2) set all boxes with wired connections to static ip addresses
>
> 3) add:    include: "/var/lib/unbound/local-data.conf"  to your
>        unbound.conf file with something like (use your ip):
>
> local-data: "cookie A 192.168.XXX.YYY"
> local-data: "cookie.sesame.street A 192.168.XXX.YYY"
>
> 4) restart unbound
>
> Ciao,
> Tito
>
>
>

Thanks for the suggestion. But that's basically getting back to fixed IP 
addresses, albeit centralized. And you need to maintain it. I'm hoping 
for an /etc/resolv kind of behavioral switch.
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