Curious lease to/from Apple DHCP Client
Sten Carlsen
sten at s-carlsen.dk
Tue Aug 1 16:56:56 UTC 2006
Precisely, but when I started my MAC I had not heard of this. The
pattern described here is like looking at a copy of my own logs from
that time. Connectivity was very flaky at its best.
Joerg Mayer wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 06:27:34PM +0200, Sten Carlsen wrote:
>
>> This is exactly the pattern I observed when I first connected my (then)
>> brand new MAC to my network; during the next week and using far too much
>> time I found that the only cure was to switch from an internal tld of
>> ".local" to something else ".home". Apple uses .local for some other
>> purpose and things go very wrong.
>>
>> If you do not use .local, I am out of ideas for now.
>>
>
> Just FYI: .local is a special domainname, see:
> http://files.multicastdns.org/draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdns.txt
> More on this topic:
> http://dotlocal.org/
>
> ciao
> Joerg
>
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Best regards
Sten Carlsen
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