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[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 04.11.11 15:28, Reindl Harald (h.reindl at thelounge.net) wrote:

> [harry at srv-rhsoft:~]$ ssh root at centos.vmware.local
> ssh: Could not resolve hostname centos.vmware.local: Name or service not known
> 
> [harry at srv-rhsoft:~]$ nslookup centos.vmware.local
> Server:         127.0.0.1
> Address:        127.0.0.1#53
> Name:   centos.vmware.local
> Address: 192.168.196.24

Note that ".local" is the mDNS ad-hoc domain as implemented by Avahi,
Bonjour/MacOS, and a lot of hardware. nslookup will only work for
unicast DNS names, and hence will bypass any mDNS lookups.

It's a good idea to avoid referencing .local hostnames from unicast DNS.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.