Greetings; My home network is all hosts based, but has a gateway and uses the router as a relay to my ISP's nameservers for addresses not in the hosts file.
But I'll be switched if I can make it work that way on a pi-3b running stretch. When it needs to use a dns lookup, it sends the dns request from picnc.local, which is of course the ahahi address, 169.254.etc.etc Somehow, I need to convince this thing it only has one address!!! My current /e/n/i.d/eth0 file: ------------- auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.71.12/24 gatewasy 192.168.71.1 dns-nameserver 192.168.71.1 search hosts dns-nameserver hwadress 192.168.71.12 -------------- adding the hwaddress just now, and restarting networking did get rid of the ahahi supplied lines in an ip a report so it looks like this but now a second request shows they are back. 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether b8:27:eb:d3:47:2d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.71.12/24 brd 192.168.71.255 scope global eth0 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet 169.254.163.253/16 brd 169.254.255.255 scope global eth0 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 fe80::7e94:f0c7:8cec:ce84/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever And I have those 2 lines in /e/sysctl.conf that are supposed to shut off the ipv6 stuff since I'm at least 100 miles from ANY ipv6 service. /e/resolv.conf nameserver 192.168.71.1 search hosts nameserver But if I ping yahoo.com, this is what I get so of course it fails: pi@picnc:/etc $ ping yahoo.com PING yahoo.com (72.30.35.9) 56(84) bytes of data. From picnc.local (169.254.163.253) icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From picnc.local (169.254.163.253) icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable From picnc.local (169.254.163.253) icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable I has as much of avahi killed as systemd will let me but I can't kill it all. That dns resolution for yahoo.com is correct, so that working fine but it being sent from a wrong address the rest of this system knows nothing about. There is still an avahi (chroot helper) running. So how do I get rid of the from hostname.local bs? I can plug a raspian jessie u-sd card back into that pi, and it works perfectly. Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>