[ale] Linux Bind9 and Windows .local dns?

[LnxGnome]

.local is a concept of multicast DNS.  If the host.local speaks mDNS, it 
should be responding to those replies for itself.  This works find for a 
small shared LAN.

If you have a distributed / firewalled network that isn't passing mDNS 
between segments, that is probably causing your problem.  In this 
situation, don't use ".local".

--LnxGnome

On 3/2/15 12:35 PM, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>   I've set up a bind9 server ( Ubuntu ) for a subnet ( 172.27/16 ) at 
> work to support some lab space.  I've found a problem where it seems 
> some Windows boxes are not correctly resolving the corp.local domain 
> even though I'm referencing the corp dns servers and internal.corp.com 
> <http://internal.corp.com> works just fine, just not the .local.  I 
> can access with \\aaa.bbb.ccc.dd\share correctly and ping 
> aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd without issue.
>
> Anyone seen this or have a link?  Googling "linux bind9 windows 
> domain" provides a lot of red herrings.
>
> Robert
>
>
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