>      Hello. I've seen that there are a bunch of people on this list who 
> are pretty comfortable with DNS, which is a field in which I only do 
> some minimal bricolage: I installed dnsmasq on the home Devuan desktop 
> to resolve its own address and ease connections from other devices. This 
> desktop provides ssh, http and CUPS services to the LAN. It works as 
> expected from Linux laptops: the desktop's name is resolved when it is 
> running.

>      I've recently bought my first smartphone. I try to get the maximum 
> freedom on Android and did create neither a Google account nor a Samsung 
> account. From F-Droid, I've installed Fennec (a fork from Firefox) to 
> browse the web, but Fennec cannot resolve the name of my desktop, though 
> it finds it when I give the numerical address. I suspect the DNS 
> configuration on Android (or in Fennec proper).