name resolution

[Tom H]

On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Joel Rees <joel.rees at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2017/11/24 6:34 "Tom H" <tomh0665 at gmail.com>:
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Xen <list at xenhideout.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>> I just think it's another bad choice and it happens to have been
>>> pushed by mr. SystemD himself.
>>>
>>> Yes, Lennart Poettering also maintains the Avahi packages.
>>>
>>> It's the same kind of "Your opinions don't matter" approach that we
>>> see everywhere else.
>>>
>>> He writes:
>>>
>>> " Please note: The line above makes nss-mdns authoritative for the
>>> .local domain. If you have a unicast DNS domain with the same name
>>> you will no longer be able to resolve hosts from it. mDNS and a
>>> unicast DNS domain named .local are inherently incompatible. Please
>>> contact your local admistrator and ask him to move to a different
>>> domain name since .local is to be used exclusively for Zeroconf
>>> technology. [26]Further information."
>>>
>>> "is to be used"
>>>
>>> Because they decide that.
>>>
>>> This encroachment on personal liberty goes on everywhere.
>>
>> It was an Apple decision not Lennart one.
>
> Or, if you prefer, Poettering using Apple as an excuse.

Lennart re-implemented Apple's Bonjour as avahi, in the same way that
MS's smb was re-implemented by others as samba.