Wednesday, 7 January 2009

DNS resolution on iPhone

I've been playing with a few iPhones lately and have had trouble getting WiFi working through our proxy. After much hair pulling the problem turns out to be a feature in the iPhone DNS resolver that refuses to look up any hostname ending in ".local". This also appears to be a problem on Mac OS X:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2385?viewlocale=en_US

With OS X you can add "local" to the Search Domains field and disable this behaviour, unfortunately it doesn't work for the iPhone.
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  1. Vlad Alexa8 April 2009 at 01:41

    problem still there in 3.0

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  2. Tim Kent2 July 2009 at 18:45

    It seems to work for me in 3.0 with the domain added to the Search Domains field.

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  3. Anonymous22 July 2009 at 18:07

    are you the tim kent working @ WCIS in Australia?

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  4. Tim Kent22 July 2009 at 18:49

    That's not me, sorry!

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  5. Anonymous23 July 2009 at 14:45

    okay thanks...i was thinking it is you, have nice day...

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