-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/09/2013 04:53 PM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: > 2. https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/blob/master/vars/default_vars.yml > seems to imply that the default domain suffix is ".local" > > That is a definite potential bug. While ".local" is reserved for > local use, multicast DNS clients effectively have taken over this > domain to the point that older networks which have .local DNS > entries have run into a lot of problems. > > A network I used to use was like this so I've seen random failures > to resolve things firsthand.
I've been trying to raise the red flag on this (mis)use of .local since the XSCE sprint in May(?) when I experienced problems using mDNS with School Server XSCE with both Linux laptops and Internet-in-a-Box appliances. Use of "schoolserver.lan" would avoid these problems. Ubuntu and Debian disable (aka "break") mDNS resolution on the client when they encounter a "misconfigured" .local domain being used in the DHCP response. This happens if they obtain a DHCP lease from a schoolserver.local. If they did not deactivate mDNS resolution, then schoolserver.local resolution would fail when mDNS couldn't resolve it. I have a request into de...@laptop.org upstream to activate mDNS name resolution on the OLPC OS to ease IIAB appliance deployments and any other local resource discovery. If/When they turn mDNS resolution on in OLPC OS, then XOs in a schoolserver network will either fail to resolve the schoolserver.local name, or mDNS will break for all other devices on the network (ex, Internet-in-a-Box appliances). I'm not sure which will break under Fedora/OLPC OS, but something will give. For more info see my thread on de...@laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2013-July/037559.html and ticket http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/bugs/2013-July/118727.html See also http://miketelahun.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/stop-using-local-as-the-top-level-domain-for-your-lan/ - -braddock -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSfxhYAAoJEHWLR/DQzlZu9/oIAMCMwaqCK4hCaOtUMRqczxbg Nqor0gqIrwdZJjTnWb3k3sdzipSLLBV+FZ/L9d8EOPpm9QgDbTOvsGAF9Yc7jXNj 9Ml5Pb7Cg+KF2PgjaNTx6aZzNxerwN5zyDEZewV2UrwTatymflitlMnUzfxsobJa 0vbydrxvEMG9eLmL8xm5k5a9TLpiN5W/sIaUvVQlPVw+Q16rSJRpPAJV9mdJABH5 INrtuUXZ/qGrIcxIbYOSIQijFJ6/HpxRhigQk8g7KDernY5NC0QX8t+MVONK9zoX 3BbAZvMe0chibwUlSasJjGhkMhiw0FwUE9mlNIfG6m9d4stSZhV6XRaVgpjMxV0= =TUwf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel