private address: debian and windows are OK, OS-0X and SuSE no
Problem:
I have some subnets with local addresses.
Almost all hosts in these subnets are laptops, getting parameters via
DHCP
To go outside users must log into the gateway, that give them a natted
address to outside world.
To get the name for the gateway (that is different for any subnet) i have
set a DNS on each gateway, that is responding to the domain
"net.local" so anyone poiinting to http://net.local"get the correct login
page.
It worked fine whit every system [using Windows in various flavours and
linus in debian and mandrake flavours] until two people carried three
computers: two with Apple and one with SuSE .
Neither one worked !
It looks their resolver is unhappy with "net.local" name !
[if i put «192.168.143.1 net.local» in /etc/hosts file they works, but then
the automatic detection of the server is lost]
Other than changing the name to net.loc is there any way to force those
systems to accept a 5 letters tld ?
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Leonardo Boselli
Nucleo Informatico e Telematico del Dipartimento Ingegneria Civile
Universita` di Firenze , V. S. Marta 3 - I-50139 Firenze
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http://www.dicea.unifi.it/~leo
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