| brent timothy saner via plug on 8 Dec 2020 13:49:25 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Defaulting the domain for a name lookup |
On 12/8/20 14:17, Rich Freeman via plug wrote: > > Interesting, I'd think that this should cause applications to search > mybands.local automatically. I thought that was more a glibc thing > than a DNS thing. But I haven't looked into that. It's technically closer to a DHCP/DHCP6/RA thing, but it's not a glibc thing exclusively. It's implemented in all the major OSes. https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-mglt-dnsop-search-list-processing-00.html https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3397 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3646#section-4 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6106#section-5.2 On 12/8/20 15:24, Rich Freeman via plug wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 2:30 PM K.S. Bhaskar via plug > <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote: >> >> I couldn't figure it out either. The only hint I could find was an obscure note that .local should be reserved for Avahi, and if you use .local for anything else, things might not work. Anyway, for now, I have something that works, and I will let sleeping dogs lie. >> > > Oh, I wasn't even paying attention to that. Yeah, .local is reserved > for RFC 6762: > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6762 > > If you use it then any distro set up to support mDNS will probably > have issues. That includes most desktop-oriented distros out of the > box. > mDNS/Avahi/Zeroconf is primarily broadcast traffic. It shouldn't conflict with a local DNS zone (as in it's not real DNS) *provided that* you don't have DNS resolution via Avahi enabled (i.e. if "mdns" is in the "hosts" entry for /etc/nsswitch.conf typically). But services running on the local machine may still be "weird" if you try to access them locally. It's generally safer and easier, especially for a multi-platform/OS environment/network, to just use something like "home.lan" or the like, though. ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug