[Cialug] Not able to resolve hosts names with a .local domain.

[Don Cady]

Do you have Avahi running on the Mint box in it's default state?

Don


On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Aaron <ampilgrim85 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have recently switched from a Debian BIND DNS server to a Zentyal 3.3
> domain Server, and I've run into an issue with DNS. Well, I've had this
> issue for a while with not resolving the FQDN, but now I've gotten into an
> big issue while joining Linux Mint 13 to Zentyal. Using Likewise-open I'm
> getting the following error:
>
> Error: Lsass Error [code 0x000000043]
>
> Network name not found.. Failure to lookup a domain name ending in
> ".local" may be the result of configuring the local system's hostname
> resolution (or equivalent) to use Multi-cast DNS. Please refer to the
> Likewise manual at http://www.likewise.com/resources/documention_library/
> manuals/open/likewise-open-guide.html#ConfigNsswitch for more information.
>
>
> I've been able to test this all out in a virtual environment before
> deployment, worked this out by editing the /etc/nsswitch.conf file.
>
>
> hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
>
> Edited the above to:
> hosts: files dns [NOTFOUND=return]
>
> And everything worked out, was able to join the VM to the domain and also
> it now allows FQDN to be resolved. However, after I deployed the Zentyal
> server in production, and configured it to same specs as I did in the VM, I
> edited the nsswitch.conf on my production Mint 13 dekstop and I get the
> same Lsass Error, however after multiple times glancing it over, I edited
> my dhclient.conf file to superseed my .local domain and preseed my
> localhost. I'm at a loss as to what else might be causing this issue. Any
> ideas and thoughts are greatly appreciated.
>
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