I'm moving to zeronconf discovery for my host names on the LAN. I added search paths for my domain and also "local". $ cat /etc/resolv.conf domain <a href="http://hank.org" target="_blank">hank.org</a> search <a href="http://hank.org" target="_blank">hank.org</a> local nameserver 192.168.1.1 "bumby2" has a zeroconf host name bumby2.local, so with the above I see: $ host -v bumby2 Trying "<a href="http://bumby2.hank.org" target="_blank">bumby2.hank.org</a>" Trying "bumby2.local" Trying "bumby2" Host bumby2 not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) Received 99 bytes from 192.168.1.1#53 in 17 ms Yet, $ ping bumby2.local PING bumby2.local (192.168.1.5) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from bumby2.local (192.168.1.5): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.68 ms $ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf | grep hosts hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 Tried changing the order, but no luck. Anyone know if I can get host names qualified with .local? -- Bill Moseley <a href="mailto:moseley@hank.org" target="_blank">moseley@hank.org</a>