Looks like the solution to this bug somehow affected me. Freshly installed Ubuntu 9.10, DHCP network connection initialized by networkmanager, and my firm uses .local domain names in their true DNS server.
Until I stop avahi-daemon, in-organization DNS names fail to resolve. -- Some ISPs have .local domain which disables avahi-daemon https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/327362 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs