I’ve got avahi installed on Ubuntu Dapper, so I assumed that that would
make looking up foo.local address lookups work. Lots of sites say “add
mdns to the hosts line in /etc/nsswitch.conf“, but it wasn’t
working. What is needed is an “mdns plugin” for nsswitch.conf, which is
nss-mdns. Installing this (it’s the libnss-mdns package in Ubuntu)
made it all work; I can now ping foo.local and it works! Yay! (not
sure why it isn’t there by default…)
Making .local DNS address lookups work on Ubuntu Dapper
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