DNS & .local domain 18.04

Question

I am trying to join Ubuntu laptops to our domain company.local (Yes I know .local is bad practice)

I am having some issues with only what I can assume is DNS. I can't ping the domain controller (dc.company.local) but I can ping other devices in a Foward Lookup Zone (mobiledevice.company.net) so this has to lead me to think Avahi is the issue.

In my research Avahi reserves .local for the local machine? So I have edited domain-name=local to domain-name=alocal under /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf

I have also edited my /etc/nsswitch.conf from:

files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4

to:

files dns mdns4_minimal mdns4

My understanding is this should say to Ubuntu, use the host file and then the DNS server (Which is being given out by DHCP).

But I cannot resolve any names on my network ending in .local

Apologies if the formatting is weird this is my fist "proper" post!

Solution

Needed to update \etc\systemd\resolved.conf with my dns and domain information.

Comments

[KTW717]

Thanks but that didn't do it for me even if I do jiggle the order around! Now I get a "Temporary failure in name resolution" for the DC. I can still ping other machines with a different DNS suffix.

[sudcha]

Exactly what did you add? What for?