[Leaplist] DNS intranet advice

[Dan Cherry]

On Monday 10 November 2008 7:52:52 pm Hank Lambert wrote:
> 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

forgot to mention, the authors of dnsmasq mentioned in their faqs 
that ".localnet" is traditional for home networks, and most of their config 
examples make use of it.  Not that it matters with respect to how it works, 
but worth mentioning.

Dan

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