[Nottingham] Odd name resolution thing

[Roger Light]

I think mdns is well implemented and used in Macs. Probably more so than
anywhere else.

Shame it isn't better used in Linux as well.

Cheers,

Roger
On Jan 3, 2014 5:05 PM, "Martin" <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:

> On 03/01/14 16:42, Jason Irwin wrote:
> > I have a router running DNSMasq and that's tied in with the DHCP. As far
> > as I can tell, this works ("ping", "dig" and "host" for "foo" and
> > "foo.bar.local" all work).
> >
> > Some thing's don't, e.g. "ssh" and "wget" both fail with "Unable to
> > resolve host" for "foo.bar.local" ("foo" works fine).
> >
> > I can fix that by changing "/etc/nsswitch.conf" from:
> > hosts:          files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] *dns* mdns4
> >
> > to:
> > hosts:          files *dns* mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] mdns4
> >
> > Before I go and replicate this change on other machines, is this
> > sensible to do? I don't expect people to actually use "foo.bar.local"
> > but it'd be nice if it worked. I'm just thrown why Canonical ship a
> > config that seems to bypass DNS and assume I must be missing something.
>
> All is explained on:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=971693&p=12589927#post12589927
>
> The "[NOTFOUND=return]" avoids polluting the internet with useless
> requests for local machines.
>
> However... If you are running your own DNS locally for serving your
> local lan for yourself, then you will indeed want your local DNS to be hit.
>
>
> I just use:
>
> hosts:          files dns
>
> being as I run my own DNS service for my lan. All internet DNS is
> blocked by a gateway firewall.
>
> You may well need to include the "mdns" stuff if you're suffering the
> Windows world and/or VPNs...
>
>
> Have fun!
> Martin
>
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