On Sun, 28 Oct 2018, Reco wrote:
So, answering your original question, you have working name resolution because you have a caching nameserver on your laptop. My money's on dnsmasq.
you are right: I had bind installed on my laptop, but on my desktop the bind9 package was missing. After installing it and running named it works. Thanks a lot for your help. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel