[avahi] Resolving single-label name "myhost" as if it was "myhost.local"

[Trent Lloyd]

I believe nss-mdns currently specifically disallows this the idea being that real dns queries will leak out onto mdns otherwise. Also for various other reasons to do with trying to keep dns queries including failures fast. 

I always thought that was per RFC though so interesting to see your quote. 

- Trent

> On 30 Aug 2020, at 6:52 pm, Blazej Krzeminski <bkrzem at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Can I somehow make Avahi to resolve "myhost" the same as if I typed "myhost.local"?
> 
> RFC 6762 Multicast DNS seems to be hinting at such possibility:
> 
>    It is unimportant whether a name ending with ".local." occurred
>    because the user explicitly typed in a fully qualified domain name
>    ending in ".local.", or because the user entered an unqualified
>    domain name and the host software appended the suffix ".local."
>    because that suffix appears in the user's search list.  The ".local."
>    suffix could appear in the search list because the user manually
>    configured it, or because it was received via DHCP [RFC2132] or via
>    any other mechanism for configuring the DNS search list.
> 
> What I've tried so far:
> 
> * using "mdns4" instead of "mdns4_minimal" in /etc/nsswitch.conf
> * adding "search local" to my /etc/resolv.conf
> * setting "domain-name=local" and "browse-domains=local" in /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Blazej                                 
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