The ".local" domain can't be resolved on the Linux Access Gateway

  • Document ID:7004501
  • Creation Date:23-Sep-2009
  • Modified Date:26-Apr-2012
    • Micro Focus Products:
      Access Manager (NAM)

Environment

Novell Access Manager 3 Linux Access Gateway
Novell Access Manager 3.1 Linux Access Gateway

Situation

The ".local" domain can't be resolved on the Linux Access Gateway.
A packet trace showed that multicast dns was done for this domain.
The LAG is running SLES9 SP3 as the operating system.

Resolution

Add the following entry in the file/etc/host.conf
mdns off
This option, introduced in SLES9 Service Pack 1, disables the special handling of the top-level domain .local by the resolver.
It instructs the resolver not to use multicast DNS, but to use the more common unicast DNS instead.

Once this setting was done resolving of the ".local" domain was possible again.