Hi all Having just installed Ubuntu 7.04, I'm having issues resolving domain names ending in .local (accessible through router-to-router VPN), for example vault.edgebyte.local. The following packets are seen:
http://tomnrob.dyndns.org/misc/mdns-capture.log That packet capture is triggered when doing a wget http://vault.edgebyte.local wget falls over with a name resolution error. Same with pings, tcp connects etc. I found a posting about an assumption somewhere that .local names are "Zeroconf" names and should not be resolvable by any DNS servers. http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/linux.redhat/2006-01/msg00159.html My dnsmasq resolves all my .local addresses just fine (by means of an upstream server for those specific domains, over the VPN tunnel), and all other client machines (different OSes) resolve these names absolutely fine from dnsmasq. I realise that it's not directly a dnsmasq thing, but it would be great if dnsmasq were to support these Ubuntu clients which now seem to choose to follow this (faulty?) assumption. I'm not sure, but I think this is a retrograde step brought in with Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 - I don't remember this coming up as an issue with previous versions. Drop me a reply with any comments/feedback/requests by all means. Regards Tom