I have found the problem. I don't like the solution though :-( >From the SuSE 9.1 Release Notes:
Change in Resolver Library Incompatible change: the resolver library treats the .local top level domain as link-local domain and sends multicast DNS requests to the multicast address 224.0.0.251 port 5353 instead of normal DNS requests. If you already use the .local domain in your nameserver configuration you will have to switch to another domain name. See http://www.multicastdns.org for more information on multicast DNS. Thanks to everyone who helped out. -- Later David Kirk
