Re: Does mDNS play well in regular DNS env?

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On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 11:49 PM, Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/04/2016 02:47 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 11:26 PM, Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 11/04/2016 02:12 PM, Tom H wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Michael B Allen <ioplex@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Of course my local network is a .local domain so it seems at least in
>>>>> my case mdns cannot really be used effectively.
>>>>
>>>> That's the problem. ".local" is the default mdns domain.
>>>>
>>>> You can change it by setting "domain-name=something_else" in
>>>> "/etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf".
>>>
>>> Although that would immediately make you incompatible with all the
>>> devices you're probably wanting to talk to. :-)
>>
>> If the ".local" devices that you're connecting to are served by
>> regular dns, it's not a problem.
>
> Of course, but in that case you don't need mDNS at all, so just remove it.

Not really. You might want to use ".local" with dns and ".mdns" with mdns.

Of course, the more that you deviate from default setups and settings,
the more work you create for yourself.
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