Re: annoying domain.local issue

First I would like to thank you for really nice ane helpfull email.

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 17:20 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
Do you have any issues when domain ends with dot local (.local) ?

How can I troubleshoot this more and fix it?

Both Fedora and Windows use the same DNS and same default gateway.

And does that DNS server have an answer for queries to that domain name?
If it does, does it have the right answer?

ping doesn't work from Fedora;

# ping web.iskon.local
ping: unknown host web.iskon.local

# ping samba.iskon.local
ping: unknown host web.iskon.local

How domains are resolved is configured in a few places.
The /etc/nsswitch.conf has a hosts section which lists the places to
look up through, in sequence.  Mine has the following in it:

#hosts:     db files nisplus nis dns
hosts:      files dns

("files" being the /etc/hosts file, "dns" being a DHS server.)

Putting a custom entry into your hosts file, for your .local addresses,
ain't gonna help you if it consults a DNS server, first, which says
something different about .local.

That's used for networking, in general.  SMB work independently, it can
also use an lmhosts file (inside the /etc/samba/ directory), or as a
WINS server (an option inside the smb.conf file), as well as DNS.

I'd suggest posting your hosts, nsswitch.conf, resolv.conf and smb.conf
files for others to see what you're doing, rather than guess.  Also the
outputs from running nslookup and dig with your problem domain name.

Here is mine nsswitch.conf :
http://fpaste.org/paste/10360

hosts :
http://fpaste.org/paste/10361

resolv.conf :
http://fpaste.org/paste/10362

i.e. dig samba.domain.local
    nslookup samba.domain.local

$ dig web.domain.local

; <<>> DiG 9.5.1-P2-RedHat-9.5.1-2.P2.fc10 <<>> web.domain.local
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 53744
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;web.domain.local. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
web.domain.local. 1200 IN A 10.0.0.18

;; Query time: 5 msec
;; SERVER: 10.0.0.6#53(10.0.0.6)
;; WHEN: Tue Apr 28 14:18:17 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 49



$ nslookup web.domain.local
Server: 10.0.0.6
Address: 10.0.0.6#53

Name: web.domain.local
Address: 10.0.0.18


$ host 10.0.0.18
28.0.0.10.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer web.domain.local.


But I can't ping web.domain.local :(

And typing http://web.domain.local in Firefox doesn't open the web
page, but typing IP it does. If I type 10.0.0.8 in Firefox I get the
home page.

As I mentioned I also have Winwdows in VirtualBox VM and there
everything works ok - ping works and also Firefox opens
web.domain.local without problems.


If you're bodging up faux domain names, you might have to fiddle quite a
few things to get it to work.  I found it easier to run my own domain
name server, with records for local domain names, and have all my local
computers use my domain name server.

When I enter in my hosts file this line:
10.0.0.18 web.domain.local

then I can ping the web server from my Fedora laptop... any ideas?




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