My Mac gets a double name

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I've just changed my router and it now sends a domainname ("local").
Other parts of the DHCP info might have changed as well, of course, tho
I wouldn't know which.

Somehow since this router-change, my Mac gets a bogus hostname that spans
two lines, like:

% hostname
empanada.local
empanada
%

This messes up many other things.
Has anyone seen something like that and know what it can come from?
The DHCP server is dnsmasq (hence the inclusion of c.o.l.n).


Stefan

Stefan Monnier <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>
> I've just changed my router and it now sends a domainname ("local").
> Other parts of the DHCP info might have changed as well, of course,
> tho I wouldn't know which.
>
> Somehow since this router-change, my Mac gets a bogus hostname that spans
> two lines, like:
>
> % hostname
> empanada.local
> empanada
> %
>
> This messes up many other things. Has anyone seen something like
> that and know what it can come from? The DHCP server is dnsmasq
> (hence the inclusion of c.o.l.n).

Do not use ".local" as a domain. MacOS reserves this for Rendezvous
networking. MacOS X systems will not send name-lookup requests for
..local to DNS.

Pick a different domain. If you don't have a real domain name, pick
a top-level domain that's not likely to ever exist, like your last
name (e.g. empanada.monnier), to avoid potential conflicts with
internet names.

-- David

> Do not use ".local" as a domain. MacOS reserves this for Rendezvous
> networking. MacOS X systems will not send name-lookup requests for
> .local to DNS.

Thanks. That's good to know. So now, some of my troubles are indeed
fixed, but I still get

% hostname
empanada.home
empanada
%

and it still messes up various things.

Any other idea what might be going on?


Stefan