Yeah, true. But that’s cool. Having choice like that is great!

But I suppose that’s the issue. Trying to keep signup simple to help drive user engagement. How much do you try to wrap someone’s head around such nuanced differences, and when do you say “just join me on my instance”?

I’m on three different instances and the sort by All-hot feed is nearly identical.

I’m not on Beehaw or Hexbear, but those instances make it pretty well known they block a lot of other instances.

Very strange, but glad you worked it out!

I’ll keep this thread in mind if I ever run into something similar.

Well, dig is available also of course, but nearly all distros still include nslookup despite it getting deprecated. I like the simplicity of its interactive mode.

Host is also really great with more human-readable output.

Don’t get me wrong, when things are getting hairy, you’re going to make a lot of use of dig. I just find that most troubleshooting can be taken care of a lot simpler with host or nslookup.

nslookup is available on macOS and most Linux distros as well (and very helpful indeed).

Yeah if you can dig a record and received a response it’s not a routing issue.

But aren’t you on the same subnet as your DNS server? There’s no routing happening if you’re on the same subnet which I was assuming.

Even through dig defaults to outputting A records when no other options are specified, I would use the A option anyway just in case:

dig @192.168.0.249 study.lan A

If you use “ping study.lan” do you see it output the A record IP address in the first line of output?

Did you try using nslookup as I described?

Yeah MakeMKV is great. That should be top on any ripping software list.

How exactly are you testing this from your client, with ping? What are you using to query the DNS?

If you run nslookup from the client

• Does the ‘server’ command return the correct DNS server?
• Does <A-record>.lan return the expected record?

I’m assuming you’ve run ifconfig to verify your client’s NIC has been assigned the correct DNS via DHCP?

You see, we first have to think about optimal tip-to-tip efficiency…