Hi,
I'm in a mixed Ubuntu/Mac OS X network environment. We're setting up several Ubuntu machines that needs to talk together using hostnames (due to some software requirements, we can't use static IPs).
In my network, I can ping hostname.local, it resolves fine, both Mac, Ubuntu, every direction. But that makes the software we use bug. We need to be able to resolve with just "hostname", and that doesn't work.
I changed the DHCP server setting on my router to add a Search domain which I set to "local", and set the DNS server as the router itself.
Now, the Mac OS X machines can resolve with just the hostname. But the Ubuntu machines, both using DHCP and static addresses, are still unable to do so.
I've spent a couple of hours reading tons of posts, more or less relevant on the topic. Some says that avahi-daemon is taking over the "local" domain. I tried to stop it, but it didn't seem to help.
(I would gladly avoid having to edit all the /etc/hosts files of all our current and upcoming machines
Any tips, ideas, thoughts?
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