LKBEN10940: Domain extention local delivers problems with DNS

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.

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About the Author

Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

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. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.