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Unable to resolve .foo.local domain names

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Mar 15, 202614887 views
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Problem

My workplace has an intranet with domain names like , , etc. I recently booted the Fedora 16 live environment to test it out and discovered that these domain names do not resolve. For example: $ ping server01.foo.local ping: unknown host server01.foo.local $ ping server01 PING server01.foo.local (X…

Error Output

server01.foo.local

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Fix for: Unable to resolve .foo.local domain names

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While I'm not 100% up on the reasoning behind why it doesn't work as expected, there seems to be a very large conflict with the mDNS service (Avahi in Linux, Bonjour/Zeroconf in Mac/Windows) and Windows networks that use .local as the internal routi…

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