[Bug 196809] Re: .local domain join doesn't work out-of-the-box on 8.04

[Thierry Carrez]

Like Ante explained, there is no way around it : Ubuntu (like Apple)
uses Zeroconf for simple service discovery on LAN, and this makes use of
the .local domain. On the other hand, Microsoft AD won't work correctly
if its domain name is not served by its own DNS. Using .local for a
domain name is therefore a recipe for trouble [1].

If for some reason you have to join an AD domain called
"something.local", then you want to disable Zeroconf  because the two
won't work together. You want the .local DNS domain to be served
primarily by the Microsoft DNS and not by Zeroconf. So you edit the
/etc/nsswitch.conf file accordingly.

This sure has to be documented (and it is [2]), but can we disable by
default Zeroconf on Ubuntu just to cater for bizarrely-named AD domains
to join ?

Question : this bug is marked private, do you agree if we open it ?
There is a potential duplicate in the buglist.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local
[2] http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/serverguide/C/likewise-open.html

** Changed in: likewise-open (Ubuntu)
   Importance: High => Low
     Assignee: Rick Clark (dendrobates) => (unassigned)

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.local domain join doesn't work out-of-the-box on 8.04
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/196809
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