Resolving .local domains

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I'm finding that I can not resolve .local domains anywhere except with nslookup and found on the LucidLynx release notes that there is a problem with avahi causing this. Although the avahi service is convenient for locating printers and such can anyone else tell me what other services/options will be impacted on a default installation of Ubuntu if I disable this service? Thanks!

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Well so far the only things I've found affected by issuing sudo stop avahi-daemon is the Empathy losing "People nearby me" and network printer browsing. Neither of which are a big deal to me but might be for others.