Is '.local' officially defined/reserved ?

[Chris Cox]

Simon Hobson wrote:
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> 
> Yep, very interesting reading. Following a few links, I found an 
> another answer to your "Mac not working with .local" problem at 
> http://www.multicastdns.org/DLLC/
> 
> But, it looks like .local isn't a good choice for a 'local' tld !
> 
> Simon
> 
Newer versions of glibc (contained already in SUSE9.2/SLES9) assume
multicast for .local names.  You can pretty easily do a binary edit
on libresolv.so and change the name to something other than local.
IMHO, they should not have hard coded the behavior.

Nearly every M$ admin is trained to use .local for local AD domains.