Cloudflared tunnels failing to reach origin service that is running on a .local domain on linux
Describe the bug Cloudflared tunnels failing to reach origin service that is running on a .local domain on linux
To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- Create a new tunnel
- Add a new route to a service with a hostname that uses a .local tld
- Access the tunneled site
Expected behavior The expected page content to appear
Environment and versions
- OS: Linux
- Architecture: ARM64, AMD64
- Version: 2026.8.2
Logs and errors 2026-08-13T01:12:18Z ERR error="dial tcp: lookup server.local on 1.1.1.1:53: no such host" connIndex=0 destAddr=ssh://server.local:22 event=1 ingressRule=0 originService=ssh://server.local:22 2026-08-13T01:12:18Z ERR Request failed error="dial tcp: lookup server.local on 1.1.1.1:53: no such host" connIndex=0 dest=#### event=0 ip=### type=ws
Additional context Tested on multiple devices, including amd64 and arm64 linux, received the same error. However when tested on macos, it works as expected.
Source: cloudflare/cloudflared