LKBEN10940: Domain extention local delivers problems with DNS
LKB | Created: 02/04/2020 | Version: 0 | Language: EN | Rating: 0 | Outdated: False | Marked for deletion: False
Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG
Symptom
We introduced a something.local domain but cannot ping any host in the local domain.
Cause
By design, local domains use Zeroconf
Solution
The clients in a local domain follow the convention of zeroconf. DNS will be done by multicast channels instead of a dns server.
You can configure your system not to use this convention by modifying resolv.conf.
About the Author
Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux in different European countries and different European languages. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform where he is one of the most important contributors and the main developer.