Update from Squeeze to Wheezy : host not found

[Sten Carlsen]

I actually have seen resolutions going very wrong when I was using
.local, so I thought that might be the cause of your issues.


On 13/11/13 16.04, list-dhcpd at lph.im wrote:
> On 13/11/2013 11:17, Glenn Satchell wrote :
>> Have you set /etc/nsswitch.conf to have
>>
>> hosts: files dns
> not exactly :
>
> hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
>
> I tried to put the dns statement before mdns4_minimal but no luck
> resolving the computer name with getent.
>
> Next answer (from Sten Carlsen), is pointing a mistake about the
> naming convention used (the tld .local. seems to be reserved to
> Multicast DNS)
> So I'm not sure the hole thing will be ok with this domain... Maybe
> next year I'll update the domain name.
>
> Regards
>
> -- 
> Vincent
>
>
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Best regards

Sten Carlsen

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