Multicast DNS & the ".local" domain
Kyrre Ness Sjobak
kyrre at solution-forge.net
Thu Nov 11 19:09:50 UTC 2004
tor, 11.11.2004 kl. 18.54 skrev Felipe Alfaro Solana:
> Short question: Does Fedora Core 3 support multicast DNS name
> resolution for the ".local" domain?
>
> Long: I can resolv my Linux hostname from my Mac OS X computer, but my
> Linux box can't resolve my Mac OS X hostname.
>
> Looking at the network traffic, Mac OS X name queries for the ".local"
> domain do send mDNS traffic to the multicast mDNS address. Linux
> queries for the ".local" domain go against my ISP DNS server.
So that is what "mDNS" stands for. What is it? Where can i find
documentation? Simple, easy-to-understand explanations? Does it mean
that i can name my computer "kyrre.local" and it will automatically be
discovered and resolved on the LAN?
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