That is really interesting. I use Redhat (Fedora) for numerous things in our
operation and have never had a problem with .local as the DNS suffix. In
fact it's been my tradition to use .local for Windows AD setups for years.
I'll definitely file both of these posts away for future reference.

For the OP:

I'm not a perl programmer, but one could assume that after making a backup
of your original libresolv.so.2 file it replaces references to "local" with
"lozal".

....kurt


"Ace Fekay [MVP]"
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> In news:2277C023-CC42-45A6-92E6-B2D04B8A79C0@microsoft.com,
> BlenderStyle <BlenderStyle@discussions.microsoft.com> stated, which I
> commented on below:
>> Okay, after lots of research I fixed my own problem. The problem was
>> due to the fact that I'm using the .local suffix in my Windows
>> domain. Aparently SUSE Linux doesn't like this or rather libresolv
>> doesn't like this. Programs like ping use libresolv but other
>> programs like nslookup don't. Here's what I did at my linux machine:
>>
>> cd /lib
>> cp libresolv.so.2 libresolv.so.2-orig
>> rm libresolv.so.2
>> cp libresolv.so.2-orig libresolv.so.2
>> perl -pi -e 's/local/lozal/g' libresolv.so.2
>> shutdown -r 0
>>
>> I have no idea what that does or why it works but it did. I can now
>> ping all the machines in my local network by hostname.
>>
>> "BlenderStyle" wrote:
>
> I don't play much with Linux, but I can comment on one of my customers
> using numerous Mac OSx systems in their environment, which is BSD based
> and has the same problem as Linux in this respect because Mac, for it's
> Rendezvous name, uses .local. We overcame that by jumping thru a few hoops
> early on.
>
> Glad you figured it out.
>
> --
> Ace
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