On Fri, 19.06.09 19:19, Carsten Strotmann (cars...@strotmann.de) wrote: > Hi, > > I stumbled over the topic I describe below when I updated an Ubuntu > System from Version 8.04 tro 9.04. Avahi refused to start because I have > a unicast ".local" domain in my network(s). > > This behavior is documented as recommended for distributions in the > Avahi Wiki at > http://avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAndUnicastDotLocal > > I think this is a not well thought out decision. It would be a good > decision if it would detect a "used" unicast ".local" domain, but in my > case, the ".local" domain is one of many "pseudo" domains that are > configured as "empty" DNS zones on all resolving DNS Servers on the > network edge (border to the Internet), to prevent any "pseudo TLD" like > ".local" to be leaked into the Internet and hitting the Root DNS Server > System.
This is simply broken. Your DNS server should not return a working SOA for .local. If at all your DNS server should always return NXDOMAIN for all .local names, overriding the internet .local SOA. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list avahi@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
