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Disable Blocking of Bonjour (.local) Websites (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by dohpaz42@lemmy.world to c/librewolf@lemmy.ml
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I am trying to connect to a .local website, and LibreWolf says it can't connect to server (one of the worst UX error pages I've seen). Google and DDG are of no help, and I do not want to resort to using another browser for something that should be simple to disable.

I have added my domain to network.dns.localDomains and that did not appear to work. I have "DNS over HTTPS" disabled completely. I do not know what else to try.

Please help.

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[-] thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Did you install librewolf via flatpak? Flatpak applications may have difficulty connecting to *.local domains due to sandboxing.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Did you add Firefox to System Settings | Privacy & Security | Local Network?

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Yeah unfortunately that didn't change anything. I enabled it, and restarted LibreWolf and it still won't connect. Thing is, it keeps trying to upgrade the connection to HTTPS, so I disabled HTTPS-Only Mode and that won't even work. I'm open to other suggestions.

[-] NightFantom@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

Have you tried another browser to confirm it's a browser issue and nothing else? I assume yes but you didn't specify so just want to make sure

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago
  1. Try ping mediacenter.local to see if your system DNS resolver can resolve the address
  2. Try curl -v mediacenter.local to see if the web server actually responds with HTTP data on port 80
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