D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote on 2024-02-26 22:43:
I'm starting to use .local. So machines declare their hostname and mDNS / bonjour gets to resolve name.local. Neat.
I ought to look into using .local myself, instead of when I had DDNS running. Sounds interesting.
Tonight I'm creating an experimental NextCloud server. Let's say it's hostname is nc.
- ping nc.local works - ssh nc.local works - host nc.local works - Firefox and even links cannot see nc.local.
Why is that?
I'm not sure, but I suspect somehow `ping`, `ssh`, and `host` avoid mDNS entirely. For your situation to work, it appears you need to tweak your /etc/nsswitch.conf file: https://superuser.com/questions/1417190/why-do-i-need-to-change-the-order-of... https://askubuntu.com/questions/678372/chrome-and-firefox-can-not-resolve-th... Basically, there should be a line which prioritizes mdns4_minimal over dns, similar to:
hosts: files mdns4_minimal dns