If you’re connecting to Electrs over TOR, this doesn’t tell us much.
But if you’re connecting to Bitcoin over LAN… that would be very strange indeed and suggest you have no issues.
Yeah, just checked, over Tor, sorry
You shouldn’t need to do any of this really.
MacOS has build in mDNS support. StartOS uses mDNS. That’s really all there is to it. Many thousands of users of StartOS do not need to spend hours doing anything other than turn on two devices and set up https.
With this said, neither the Mac or the server should need to be fixed in any way, since both work by default, unless you “do something”, which we’ve addressed and you’re not (i.e. no LAN blocking VPN on the client etc etc)
This leaves one component, your network, but this is one that you really should notice if you changed something (not like you’d accidentally replace your router and forget about it, or accidentally install mesh wifi and forget about it). This is confirmed by all your network devices having the same problem.
It’s also the most difficult to guess a solution to, since there are thousands of permutations I can’t begin to guess at.
My guess is you’re going to using a router that is blocking mDNS, or you’re using some sort of Wifi mesh network.
This is mentioned in the common issues you referenced in the first post.
As mentioned, no mesh network and same router as when i last logged on via .local. Any way to access the mempool UI by copying and modifying the .local address it points to ?
Just checked whether i can use the printer on the same LAN from my Mac and I can. Apparently this requires mDNS to resolve correctly, if Perplexity is not hallucinating
That would be the case, if you didn’t set up the network printer with the IP address. If you used an IP address, then the printer would always work.
You could in theory edit the hosts file on your clients and point all .locals to an IP address, but this would not “fix” what might be a router firewall issue and just imitate mDNS working.
With v040 of StartOS, we do away with .locals – too few people have implemented it over the years. A really good idea, that’s hasn’t seen much adoption.
Ok thanks. Just completely restarted the Start9 again and the .local works now