[Samba] Don't use .local

Stefan Kania stefan at kania-online.de
Thu Jan 8 03:33:10 MST 2015


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Am 07.01.2015 um 19:37 schrieb BISI:
> On 15-01-04 04:16 AM, Stefan Kania wrote: Hello everyone,
> 
> I know that many people know not to use .local, but in the last
> weeks we had several People having problems using .local. So to all
> peopel starting implementing Samba 4 AD, read this: 
> http://miketelahun.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/stop-using-local-as-the-top-level-domain-for-your-lan/
>
> 
> 
> So stop using .local as TLD. Maybe there should be a BIIIIIG not 
> inside the wiki?
> 
> Stefan
> 
> 
> 
>> 
> What about joining  a member server to an windows AD domain that
> was set up as whatever.local years ago?  Stock microsoft setup in
> the day, the ADC does everything, including DNS.
> 
> Does the name resolution issue cause problems for my new member
> server?
> 
> 
No you can stay with .local BUT if you use SLES (I don't know if it
the same with other distributions) you should edit /etc/host.conf ands
add a line "mdns off".

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