name resolution

[Paul Smith]

On Sat, 2017-11-25 at 09:36 +0000, Xen wrote:
> You realize it says right in the beginning:
> 
> Multicast DNS (mDNS) provides the ability to perform DNS-like
>     operations on the local link ___in the absence of any conventional
>     Unicast DNS server___.
> 
> Emphasis mine?

That doesn't mean what you seem to think it means.  It simply means
mDNS provides DNS-like operations without needing to have a
conventional Unicast DNS server available.

It doesn't mean that mDNS will only be used if you do not have a
conventional Unicast DNS server.

> "Any DNS query for a name ending with ".local." MUST be sent to the
>     mDNS IPv4 link-local multicast address 224.0.0.251 (or its IPv6
>     equivalent FF02::FB)."
> 
> This goes directly against the above statement.

No it doesn't.