Multicast DNS & the ".local" domain

Felipe Alfaro Solana felipe_alfaro at linuxmail.org
Thu Nov 11 17:54:38 UTC 2004


Short question: Does Fedora Core 3 support multicast DNS name 
resolution for the ".local" domain?

Long: I can resolv my Linux hostname from my Mac OS X computer, but my 
Linux box can't resolve my Mac OS X hostname.

Looking at the network traffic, Mac OS X name queries for the ".local" 
domain do send mDNS traffic to the multicast mDNS address. Linux 
queries for the ".local" domain go against my ISP DNS server.




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