> This fact may be related as the .local domain is used (reserved?) for > Avahi and mDNS. > > On Fedora, my /etc/nsswitch.conf file has the following: > > hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns > > I expect Ubuntu's is very similar, so if the mdns lookup fails the > entire host lookup will also fail. You could probably move > mdns4_minimal to the end of the line, so your DNS takes precedence: > > hosts: files dns mdns4_minimal > > This might affect Avahi though, but if you don't care about it just > remove or disable the Avahi services entirely. > > Or the best solution might be to change your internal domain sooner > rather than later! There are a few domains and TLDs reserved for > internal use: > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606#page-2
Thanks very much Dominic, this must be it. I set-up a .bogus domain which worked as expected, I then scooped out all the .bogus bits and replaced with .local and it still didn't work. As you say, .local must be reserved. I thought it must be something specific to the client. I have now decided to use one of my .net domains for internal. I had been advised against making my own up since a ICANN are planning to create many new gTLDs in the future: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtld-program.htm The next challenge for me is configuring the domain to point to my own nameservers, which looks a bit fiddly with GoDaddy. -- GPG Key fingerprint = B323 477E F6AB 4181 9C65 F637 BC5F 7FCC 9CC9 CC7F “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” - Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) -- Please post to: [email protected] Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
