On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:05:23 +0100 "Sebastien Estienne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Could you be more specific about the issue you had? You said it your self. It doesn't work if you use .local domain. You have zeroconf/avahi claiming .local domain and DNS server also claiming .local. And, since avahi has precedence in nsswitch.conf, you can't connect to any machine with real .local domain. > FYI macOsX has exactly the same feature enabled by default, it's > called "bonjour" and the process on OsX is mDNSResponder > the .local is the default zeroconf domain, one common issue is that > microsoft also recommend to use this domain > "http://support.microsoft.com/kb/296250";, this clashes with zeroconf > .local I'm quite aware of lots of OSX pitfalls and shortcomings and that's why I don't use it. Apple doesn't produce only good stuff. Ou contraire. And it's not only MS. A lot of private domains use .local name, because .local is, as MS correctly points out, not registered for use on Internet. > i think it's not specific to avahi, but to zeroconf and dns in > general. It's not. I'm not arguing that avahi is bad. Protocol it tries to implement is broken by design. Protocol It self should use some not-so-generic domain, like .zeroconf, but there's nothing we can do about that. -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
