Comment 25 for bug 659872

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:06 AM, John Vincent <email address hidden> wrote:
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> I also get this warning message from Avahi: "Avahi has detected a .local
> domain and is shutting down". And no one really seems to know much about
> it. My ISP swears it has nothing to do with them. Avahi say to check
> with my Network Administrator and he doesn't know squat cause that's me.
> I'd kind of like to get rid of it rather than follow the seemingly
> preferred tendency to "workaround" unknowns....

Might you have configuration that sets the domain as .local, either in
the configuration of your connections in NetworkManager, or in files
in /etc/ (like resolv.conf or domainname)?

NM doesn't touch that domain and IIRC knows about not doing anything
with it, since that would potentially cause issues. But it won't
override configs you put into connections claiming to know better ;)

The .local domain is a virtual domain created by avahi to dynamically
have different machines on the same subnet speak to each other. If
it's configured in files or other configuration on your system, the
name can't be used and Avahi would complain as so.

Since this is not directly relevant to this bug report, could you
please file a new bug against nm-applet, so we can work on this: you
can do so with the command "ubuntu-bug network-manager-gnome".

/ Matt