This is *still* a problem on 16.04.1 LTS. This message in syslog: Dec 5 14:12:11 tali avahi: Avahi detected that your currently configured local DNS server serves Dec 5 14:12:11 tali avahi: a domain .local. This is inherently incompatible with Avahi and thus Dec 5 14:12:11 tali avahi: Avahi disabled itself. If you want to use Avahi in this network, please Dec 5 14:12:11 tali avahi: contact your administrator and convince him to use a different DNS domain, Dec 5 14:12:11 tali avahi: since .local should be used exclusively for Zeroconf technology. Dec 5 14:12:11 tali avahi: For more information, see http://avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAndUnicastDotLocal
There is no .local domain: ~ • host -t SOA local ;; Warning: Message parser reports malformed message packet. local.Home has no SOA record ~ • host -t SOA local. ;; Warning: Message parser reports malformed message packet. local has no SOA record (Some posts I found do the lookup with a trailing dot, others omit it, so I did both.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/327362 Title: Some ISPs have .local domain which disables avahi-daemon To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-notes/+bug/327362/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
