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VinzC
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 Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 2:43 pm Post subject: Does avahi need reverse DNS in a LAN? |
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Hi all.
I wanted to give Avahi a try and installed nss-mdns for I don't need the whole Avahi implementation on my laptop. My home network has a .local domain name suffix. I have noticed when I change the hosts: line in nsswitch.conf (hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4), name resolution no longer works at home. Now I'm at work with avahi-daemon service started and it seems to work.
Strangely enough, when I'm home, tools like dig and host return results while ping <host> returns it can't find the host. When I'm at work everything seems to function normally and I have no time out.
The only one thing I'm thinking of at home is that my Wifi/DSL router has no local DNS, i.e. it is only a DNS forwarder with no local name resolution based on the leases, like dnsmasq, for instance. As a matter of fact, so far, everytime I lookup for a host (dig or host commands) on my local network, for instance, the lookup operation fails with a time-out (which is logical since my router forwards the NS requests to my ISP DNS serverrs)...
So my question is: is my issue linked with the absence of a proper name resolution server in my local network?
Thanks in advance for any hint or suggestion.
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Ant P.
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| Quote: | | My home network has a .local domain name suffix |
mDNS uses this suffix. You need to either change your domain or edit the .local default in every avahi config file used on the network. |
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| Ant P. wrote: | | You need to either change your domain or edit the .local default in every avahi config file used on the network. |
Thanks Ant P. There must be something I don't get however... I think I read the .local suffix was for local network where you have no official domain... Will, for example, .localdomain work then? What should be the domain name for local networks?
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