As long as I'm asking ignorant questions.. is there some reason why
bind (at least as it came configured on my Debian machine) looks up
.local names?
I added this bit to named.conf to do what seemed reasonable. But
again - it seems reasonable _to me_ I dunno if anyone else agrees & it
seems like either way is RFC compliant.
zone "local" in { type master; notify no; file
"/etc/bind/db.null"; };
# https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6762
# This document specifies that the DNS top-level domain ".local." is a
# special domain with special semantics, namely that any fully
# qualified name ending in ".local." is link-local, and names within
# this domain are meaningful only on the link where they originate.
#
# Any DNS query for a name ending with ".local." MUST be sent to the
# mDNS IPv4 link-local multicast address 224.0.0.251 (or its IPv6
# equivalent FF02::FB).
#
# Implementers MAY choose to look up such names concurrently via other
# mechanisms (e.g., Unicast DNS) and coalesce the results in some
# fashion.
#
# "ping mypc.local." does a normal dns lookup followed by a
# link-local multicast name resolution to 224.0.0.252
# adding local to null.zone at least stops the normal dns lookup
TIA,
Lee
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