Document that a primary nameserver is exclusive on Windows - #950
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A peer with a primary nameserver now gets a Name Resolution Policy Table rule covering every namespace, so all resolution goes through NetBird and nowhere else. Without it Windows queries every adapter's resolvers in parallel and keeps whichever answer arrives first, which leaks queries to the local network and lets another resolver answer for a name NetBird is authoritative for. Two consequences worth knowing before it surprises someone: - Zones only the local network resolves stop working while connected, unless they are declared as match domains. A more specific rule takes precedence, so declaring the zone is the fix. `.local` is exempt, so multicast DNS is unaffected. - Short names depend on which adapter's suffix Windows tries first, and it stops at the first "no such name" rather than continuing down the list. On domain-joined machines the machine's own domain wins that first attempt, so a short name can fail while its fully qualified form resolves. Placed next to the existing macOS note in the same section, since both are about what a primary nameserver does beyond catching unmatched queries, and next to the existing warning about emptying match domains, which the suffix caveat explains the other half of. Also documents NB_USE_LEGACY_DNS_RESOLUTION, which restores the old behaviour on a peer.
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In `@src/pages/manage/dns/internal-dns-servers.mdx`:
- Around line 119-121: Update the Note explaining the Windows short-name
workaround to state that the match-domain nameserver must also have search
domains enabled, while preserving the existing recommendation to use the fully
qualified name or configure the match-domain nameserver.
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Two fixes to the notes added in the previous commit.
The short-name mechanism was described wrongly. Windows does not stop at the
first suffix that misses: it walks the whole suffix list of the preferred
interface, and what it will not do is fall through to another interface's
suffixes. Measured on a Windows 11 machine — with NetBird's adapter preferred, a
list of {fritz.box, netbird.cloud} resolves a name that only exists under the
second entry; with the metric raised so the physical adapter wins, the same name
fails because only that adapter's single suffix is ever tried. The practical
advice changes with it: declaring the local zone with search domains enabled puts
both suffixes in one list, which is what makes short names work either way.
Both notes now say the exclusive behaviour arrives in client v0.78.0 and what
earlier clients did instead, so the page reads correctly for someone still on
0.77, and the environment variable is marked with the version that introduces it.
…dows The suffix-search behaviour is not Windows' own: without the catch-all NRPT rule Windows keeps searching the other adapters' suffix lists, and the short name resolves. Gate the note to v0.78.0 and point at it from the exclusivity note, so both texts agree on what the change costs.
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A peer with a primary nameserver now gets a Name Resolution Policy Table rule covering every namespace, so all resolution goes through NetBird and nowhere else. Without it Windows queries every adapter's resolvers in parallel and keeps whichever answer arrives first, which leaks queries to the local network and lets another resolver answer for a name NetBird is authoritative for.
Two consequences worth knowing before it surprises someone:
.localis exempt, so multicast DNS is unaffected.Placed next to the existing macOS note in the same section, since both are about what a primary nameserver does beyond catching unmatched queries, and next to the existing warning about emptying match domains, which the suffix caveat explains the other half of.
Also documents NB_USE_LEGACY_DNS_RESOLUTION, which restores the old behaviour on a peer.
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NB_USE_LEGACY_DNS_RESOLUTIONenvironment variable, available from client v0.78.0, including legacy behavior and potential query leakage.