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Chris Davies
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This is by design, as per RFC6762RFC6762, .local domains are meant to be resolved locally using multicast DNS (mDNS) or against local DNS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local

It's not that you can't make it work, but the nature of this domain makes DNS libraries and software handle it differently to other domain names.

This is by design, as per RFC6762, .local domains are meant to be resolved locally using multicast DNS (mDNS) or against local DNS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local

It's not that you can't make it work, but the nature of this domain makes DNS libraries and software handle it differently to other domain names.

This is by design, as per RFC6762, .local domains are meant to be resolved locally using multicast DNS (mDNS) or against local DNS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local

It's not that you can't make it work, but the nature of this domain makes DNS libraries and software handle it differently to other domain names.

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Pedro
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This is by design, as per RFC6762, .local domains are meant to be resolved locally using multicast DNS (mDNS) or against local DNS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local

It's not that you can't make it work, but the nature of this domain makes DNS libraries and software handle it differently to other domain names.