Search Domains not working through DHCP (DHCP Option 119)

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Search Domains not working through DHCP (DHCP Option 119)

I have set up search domains in my router (DHCP Option 119) and it seems to be sent to the iPad according to the router logs, but it is not appearing in Settings, as seen in the picture.

I doesn't seem to be working for this user with MacOS either, or for the 60+ people who said that they have the issue as well, but nobody replied.

Is this feature actually broken in iOS/iPadOS and MacOS, because that appears to be the case?

iPad Pro, iPadOS 14

Posted on Sep 28, 2020 4:54 PM

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jason404i Author

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Nov 12, 2020 9:03 AM in response to NastyNas

There is no solution until Apple fixes it and who knows if they even know about the problem.

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Piotr_S

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Jan 7, 2021 5:42 AM in response to deejerydoo

Still broken in iOS/iPadOS 14.3

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_rM517_

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Oct 17, 2020 11:04 AM in response to John Dunsmore

Browsers are not working My iOS devices. I can use Facebook but email and browsers are not working. I did add an OpenDNS to it and it works now but I have to do that for each SSID.

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NastyNas

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Nov 12, 2020 8:56 AM in response to jason404i

Did you find a solution to this? I'm seeing the same issue on iOS 14, the search domains field is blank.

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jason404i Author

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Nov 22, 2020 7:08 PM in response to jason404i

Still broken in iOS/iPadOS 14.2

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Jan 6, 2021 5:33 PM in response to jason404i

I'm also seeing this in macOS Catalina. NetComm router with DHCP Option 119 set and macOS Catalina is not picking it up.

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celliott147

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Sep 29, 2020 8:46 AM in response to jason404i

This feature is not broken. This is an issue with the router, switch, or access point. You may need to reach out to your network administrator. If you are the network administrator, you may try restarting those devices.

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Answer 8

Oct 15, 2020 9:31 PM in response to celliott147

celliott147, I have the same issue, all MacOS and Windows machines (about 10)receive the proper suffix from DHCP (provided by ISC DHCP on a raspberry PI).. So its not an issue with the router, switch or AP.

It's only iOS devices that do not receive the search suffix properly... or they ignore it altogether.

the option command in the dhcp.conf is correct as per the documentation provided by ISC is

option domain-search "mydomain.local";

not being accepted by iOS devices

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