[Leaplist] DNS intranet advice

[Hank Lambert]

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John Simpson wrote:
>
> my experience is that using "local." can interfere with other
> "automatic" things, like the
> zeroconf/bonjour/whatever-the-hell-they-call-it-this-week
> networking that apple likes to use.
Without knowing why, I do know from experience that using .local on a
MS network that also supports Macs will cause many problems with the
Macs. A client of mine upgraded from an NT 4.0 network to a W2K
network and used .local for the inside. The Mac department could no
longer attach to the shared storage. Here is a technet article about it:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc708159.aspx

- --Hank

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