[Bug 327362] Re: Some ISPs have .local domain which disables avahi-daemon

[Thomas Hood]

Comment #50 described how Mac OS X 10.2 did it. Here is how Mac OS X
v10.6 does it (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3473).

"As long as your network's DNS server is properly configured, you do not
have to make any changes on your client Mac.

Host names that contain only one label in addition to local, for example
"My-Computer.local", are resolved using Multicast DNS (Bonjour) by
default. Host names that contain two or more labels in addition to
local, for example "server.domain.local", are resolved using a DNS
server by default.

Additionally, Mac OS X v10.6 automatically detects when the local
network operator has set up a name server that will answer name requests
for a domain ending in ".local". It does this by checking to see if
there is a Start Of Authority (SOA) record for the top level domain
"local", which is how a DNS server indicates that it claims to have
authority over a part of the DNS namespace. As long as the DNS server is
properly configured with the required SOA record, Mac OS X v10.6 will
detect this SOA record and automatically use this server to look up all
host names in the domain."

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Title:
  Some ISPs have .local domain which disables avahi-daemon

Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “avahi” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “avahi” source package in Karmic:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: avahi-daemon

  After a fresh install of Jaunty Alpha 3 avahi did not work and as a
  result of that - not Bonjour in Pidgin, and some network discovery
  stuff.

  I have been looking for a solution, but still - after the fresh
  install, when I used Intrepid, it worked fine.

  During boot I see some error with avahi-daemon (do quick to actually read), and I think that it is the same thing as I get when trying to startup avahi-damon:
  daniel at daniel-laptop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start
   * Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon avahi-daemon                                                                                
   * avahi-daemon disabled because there is a unicast .local domain

  And after login there is a notify regarding the same matter.

  This same things is confirmed on my finances netbook. 
  We used the Alternative Jaunty CD for install (due to that the install crashed when the installing user already existed in /home, on the desktop CD)

  Awesome work - keep it up! ;)

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