This is *still* a problem on 16.04.1 LTS. This message in syslog: Dec 5 14:12:11 tali avahi: Avahi detected that your currently configured local DNS server serves Dec 5 14:12:11 tali avahi: a domain .local. This is inherently incompatible with Avahi and thus Dec 5 14:12:11 tali avahi: Avahi disabled itself. If you want to use Avahi in this network, please Dec 5 14:12:11 tali avahi: contact your administrator and convince him to use a different DNS domain, Dec 5 14:12:11 tali avahi: since .local should be used exclusively for Zeroconf technology. Dec 5 14:12:11 tali avahi: For more information, see http://avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAndUnicastDotLocal
There is no .local domain: ~ • host -t SOA local ;; Warning: Message parser reports malformed message packet. local.Home has no SOA record ~ • host -t SOA local. ;; Warning: Message parser reports malformed message packet. local has no SOA record (Some posts I found do the lookup with a trailing dot, others omit it, so I did both.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to avahi in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/327362 Title: Some ISPs have .local domain which disables avahi-daemon Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in avahi package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in avahi source package in Karmic: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: avahi-daemon After a fresh install of Jaunty Alpha 3 avahi did not work and as a result of that - not Bonjour in Pidgin, and some network discovery stuff. I have been looking for a solution, but still - after the fresh install, when I used Intrepid, it worked fine. During boot I see some error with avahi-daemon (do quick to actually read), and I think that it is the same thing as I get when trying to startup avahi-damon: daniel@daniel-laptop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start * Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon avahi-daemon * avahi-daemon disabled because there is a unicast .local domain And after login there is a notify regarding the same matter. This same things is confirmed on my finances netbook. We used the Alternative Jaunty CD for install (due to that the install crashed when the installing user already existed in /home, on the desktop CD) Awesome work - keep it up! ;) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-notes/+bug/327362/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
