Comment 63 for bug 327362

This is a response I got from my ISP. I think it's relevant.

"According to the RFC 6762 (chapter 22, IANA
considerations) the top level domain .local
should be handled as being Special-Use Domain
Names, which the RFC 6761 states "the caching
DNS servers SHOULD generate immediate (positive
or negative) responses for all queries".

Basicly, one should not query any .local. names.
But as many users do this, ISPs like us must
protect root name servers from these bogus queries.

We recommend not using the avahi-daemon since
it is causing problems."