Hi Snidely,

On Wednesday 18 September 2019 10:49:31 Snidely Whiplash wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 7:28 AM Baron <baron@...> wrote:
> > Unbelievable !  I did as you suggested and everything is now back
> > to normal,
>
> I don't think "lan" would be valid in the search directive, only a
> domain. I only put nameserver directives in my resolv.conf files, I
> don't particularly want that behaviour, at least not unless I
> actually had a domain that directive could catch. See, what
> happened to you is, you typed an improperly formatted address (not
> a fully qualified domain) so your resolver was trying to append
> .lan to your http://localhost.

Actually I didn't put it there !
It was automatically generated by "Network Manager" !
I had absolutely no idea until you pointed it out.  Surely that has to 
be a bug or at least an error !

Again thank you for your insight.
-- 
Best Regards:
            Baron