Offline dev- dns does not resolve correctly

[ptmkenny]

Please complete the following:

Link to the page that needs to be updated or changed.
https://docs.devwithlando.io/guides/offline-dev.html

Describe the change you'd like
I followed the instructions, and when I get to step 12 (lando start), I get the announcement that my site is available at mysite.test.

But when I actually try to go to mysite.test, I get a DNS not found error. This happens both when I am online and offline. However, mysite.lndo.site resolves normally. (Additional note: lando gulp breaks when I have "test.me" in ~/.lando/config.yml).

Related issue: https://github.com/lando/lando/issues/448

Potential problem:

In step 10, it says to add "domain: test.me" to ~/.lando/config.yml, and in step 12, it shows these results:

 APPSERVER URLS https://localhost:32791
                http://localhost:32792
                http://bestappever.test
                https://bestappever.test

But my actual results look like this (the .me) is still there:

 APPSERVER URLS https://localhost:32791
                http://localhost:32792
                http://bestappever.test.me
                https://bestappever.test.me

Also, in step 4, it says to configurednsmaqs.conf like this:

address=/test/127.0.0.1

But some sources I checked online suggested it should be .test instead. (I don't have it working yet so I don't know what is correct, but as written the documentation currently does not appear to work on mojave (10.14.4)

[possiBri]

@ptmkenny I'm pretty sure the test.me thing is indeed a typo in the documentation, because removing the ".me" from that declaration from the ~/.lando/config.yml file will fix the issue (and should definitely get updated in documentation if it is indeed a typo).

That being said, I just want to add that I'm also on Mojave and I followed all of the instructions as well and I still have yet to get it to work. I used .lab for my TLD, set up dnsmasq, added proper files/settings in all the config locations, and upon spin up they are still red and inaccessible. Now, if I dig or ping the domain I get success, but lando doesn't appear to be connecting somewhere. I've even tried changing domain to proxyDomain just to see (since that was the old naming convention) but that definitely didn't work. Additionally, I've found that even though they aren't listed in the spin up text, the .lndo.site domains still work, in case that helps hunt down the issue. I've also tried just poking around in most of the different lando files just to see if maybe there was something missed, but I couldn't seem to find anything.

As always, thanks for an awesome product, because even with the little hiccups this is still worlds better than how I used to have to do local dev.

[possiBri]

UPDATE: I just did a lando rebuild which I could've sworn I'd tried at some point... but that totally fixed it. Upon restart everything is green and the page loads!

[dirtystylus]

Can confirm two things:

• Removing .me from the domain entry in ~/.lando/config.yml helped
• lando rebuild was required, a simple lando poweroff and lando start did not work on two separate machines

Thanks @ptmkenny and @possiBri for documenting your attempts, your notes were super helpful.

[dirtystylus]

Also!

You need to make sure that your project domain with your TLD is in your etc/hosts file, or your URLs will still show up red after a lando rebuild. I’ve summarized my whole journey here: http://dirtystylus.com/2019/04/26/offline-development-with-lando/

[miiimooo]

@dirtystylus I'm going to read your blog post but a question: what about using dnsmasq? I think I had a working setup previously in linux with network-manager that didn't need an entry in /ect/hosts and just a wildcard dns entry in dnsmasq for .loc

[dirtystylus]

@miiimooo I can’t comment on the Linux side, but on the Mac OS side I had the dnsmasq entry for my TLD and it simply wouldn’t revolve without a an entry in /etc/hosts, for either my work or my home laptop. YMMV, as always

[pirog]

This documentation was provided quite awhile ago and i can confirm it is out of date on multiple fronts. The most pressing are the ones notes by @dirtystylus over at https://github.com/lando/lando/issues/1581#issuecomment-487180543

It's also worth pointing out that while you can straight up use a TLD we DO NOT recommend that you do so. This is something that changed when we started providing better security and certificate management, tl;dr and as you might expect they dont really let you issue a wildcard cert for an ENTIRE TLD.

Not sure when these will be deployed but here are some updates based on feedback
lando/lando@650ea06