You could do this but this won't affect all the other mDNS clients on the network that will use .local by default
FYI: http://www.avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAndUnicastDotLocal -- Avahi behaves badly where there is a unicast .local-domain. https://launchpad.net/bugs/83468 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
