Thread: Second DNS nameserver fails
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Old 10-Jul-2009, 08:21
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Default Re: Second DNS nameserver fails
.local is reserved for mDNS, and will cause strange behaviour. If you don't want interaction with mDNS, add

mdns off

to /etc/host.conf. This is not in the openSUSE man page which is badly out of date (2003), but you can find the documentation on the web:

5:host.conf - Linux Man Pages Manual Documentation for Linux / Solaris / UNIX / BSD
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