Debian: ping unknown host but DNS works
Hello. Today I bumped into a problem with ping: kassner@brian$ ping git.company.local ping: unknown host git.company.local Of course, it’s a local address, so maybe I forgot to add the local DNS server. Let’s check: kassner@brian$ dig A git.company.local ; < <>> DiG 9.8.4-rpz2+rl005.12-P1 < <>> A git.company.local ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER< <- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 15746 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;git.company.local. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: git.company.local. 86400 IN A 192.168.0.150 ;; Query time: 0 msec ;; SERVER: 10.0.0.1#53(10.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Thu Nov 14 12:05:45 2013 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 249 WTF? Oh, of course. I’m using a .local suffix, so Avahi will take action. Needless for my local network, I just disabled it on Debian Wheezy: ...