Server issues

[Ante Karamatić]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:05:23 +0100
"Sebastien Estienne" <sebastien.estienne at gmail.com> 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.