Linux DNS

So in using Linux at work I was never able to get the the DNS for our internal servers to work. I always thought it was a DNS issue until I found this post. So to quickly summarize what is going on is the .local suffixes on all the server DNS entries were never getting resolved by the AVAHI Daemon. Here is what you need to do to fix it.

1. edit the following file with your text editor of choice:
   

   /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf

2. Change the following line:
   

   #domain-name=local

   to
   

   domain-name=.alocal

3. Save the file and exit
4. Restart AVAHI:
   

   sudo service avahi-daemon restart

Once AVAHI has been restarted those server addresses that end with .local should resolve on your internal network.