i'm having this same problem. company.local domains used to work in edgy's firefox, but not in feisty's
if i do: dig company.local from the command line, the IP is resolved correctly -- .local in domain line of resolv.conf activates MDNS https://launchpad.net/bugs/76067 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs