Comment 61 for bug 327362

The original issue was, roughly, that Avahi daemon disables itself when an ISP has a .local TLD. I take it that this is not a bug but a feature. So perhaps this report should be marked wontfix?

A desire was also expressed that the Avahi daemon handle this situation better, as described for example in my previous comment (#60). I have filed a new bug report (bug #1167352) requesting that the improved behavior be implemented.

Another alleged issue is that the current test for .local has false positives: Exterminans claimed this in comment #46. However, his suggested alternative for line 58 looks the same to me as the original line 58 so I don't know what he means. Exterminans: Can you please open a *new* bug report with a fuller explanation of this false-positive bug?

The current test for .local also suffers from false negatives. That is bug #80900.