Re: Resolving .local domain FQDN on client

Hello Richard,

Take a look at the man page of host.conf and specially at the option mdns.
You might need to set "mdns off" in the file host.conf.
I got a similar problem with .local in the past and that fixed my problem.

Bernard

On 3/22/07, Richard Harb (debian) <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello list,

I have a server running bind that is master for 'domain.local'.
When I try to use a FQDN from within an application on my debian
etch 'desktop machine' (e.g. in a browser: http://host.domain.local/) it
does not resolve / ask the DNS server for the address.

with the tool 'host' I can resolve queries just fine.
e.g. for hostname 'svn'
$ host svn
or
$ host svn.domain.local
I get the correct answer and a request to the DNS server is made as I can
see
in the debug log there.

$ ping svn
succeeds, it obviously adds the domain as found in resolv.conf (search
domain.local) to the host part
while
$ ping svn.domain.local
fails. No query to the server is made, thus no address resolved, ping
fails.

IIRC it's been working fine until maybe about 1-2 months ago. I think I
did an
apt-get upgrade after which it stopped working, but I didn't notice right
away and in the meantime I can't recall an exact date so I could maybe
check
the log file for what's exactly been upgraded - and might be at fault.
A search on the web, list etc. didn't give me any clues either ...

Does anyone have any idea about where I could look (man, url, ...) or what
the
problem might be?

Thanks

Richard


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