I have a simple need: access a few new home lab-hosted internal services by hostname from family iPhones and computers instead of remembering IP addresses. What should be a trivial DNS configuration turned into a several-hour rabbit hole that taught me more about iOS’s peculiar DNS behavior than I ever wanted to know. The Setup…

Finally, after much wrangling with Apache, PHP, WordPress and its multisite configuration, and SSL certificates, I think I have our little network of sites up, usable, and secure. Time will tell.