Ubuntu
avahi package

  1. Bug #80900
  2. Comment #26

Comment 26 for bug 80900

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nitecoder (nitecoder) wrote : Re: problems resolving fully qualified domain names in environments where .local is used as a TLD

A simple solution to this problem is implied here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/avahi/+bug/153644
Changing the /etc/nsswitch.conf file's hosts line from

 hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4

to

 hosts: files dns mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] mdns4

solves the problem. I'm still uncertain of the usefulness of avahi, but at least it's not in the way.