Hm...everything looks okay, although I would change your button. It should be type="submit"...
Are you logged in by any chance since it has the guest middleware applied to it?
If you run this command, php artisan route:list, what do you get?
Are you accessing the route through a form? If so, can you post that code?
If you dd() your results, what do you get? public function lookup(HostnameRequest $request) { $host...
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