On Fri, 04.11.11 15:28, Reindl Harald (h.rei...@thelounge.net) wrote: > [harry@srv-rhsoft:~]$ ssh root@centos.vmware.local > ssh: Could not resolve hostname centos.vmware.local: Name or service not known > > [harry@srv-rhsoft:~]$ nslookup centos.vmware.local > Server: 127.0.0.1 > Address: 127.0.0.1#53 > Name: centos.vmware.local > Address: 192.168.196.24
Note that ".local" is the mDNS ad-hoc domain as implemented by Avahi, Bonjour/MacOS, and a lot of hardware. nslookup will only work for unicast DNS names, and hence will bypass any mDNS lookups. It's a good idea to avoid referencing .local hostnames from unicast DNS. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
