Q: cannot access .local domain/intranet site when connected to the VPN after the IOS 8 update.

Hi,

I have exactly the same problem. iPhone 5 and 5S and iPad 2 were updated from iOS7 to iOS8 and now .local domains that are hosted on Windows SBS 2003 do not open/resolve using Safari, Puffin or Mercury browsers when connecting over built in SBS' VPN. It worked perfectly normal since iOS 6.1 was released as far as I remember.

I had exactly the same problems in the past when updating to iOS 6 while it worked well on iOS 5.

Shame on you Apple. Same issues with every new major iOS release. And most probably, as always, you will stick your head in the sand with not confirming the existing problem, and maybe resolving it silently in future 'service pack' called 8.0.1 or 8.1 aka. "the next biggest iOS release ever" or similar..

My previous thread on that bug when iOS 6 was released:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4316614?tstart=0

I am having a similar problem.  We were able to connect to our corporate intranet in Safari in IOS 7 and it no longer works since upgrading to IOS 8.  Google Chrome works, so I guess we will use this as our workaround until we have a solution.

Come on Apple!

In my case Chrome did not work either. Same in case of d3nnis.c's problem as far as I understand.

What I did as a workaround was to add a website identity in IIS in my case with the same suffixes, but in *.com domain and then added A type domain record to that domain's *.com address with the local LAN IP of the host computer behind the VPN So in my case the A type domain record looks like this:

xxx.yyy.com (normally having the iOS7 onboard I used xxx.yyy.local over VPN and it worked perfectly) that leads to 192.168.1.10 which is the LAN IP of the http server.

Perhaps you will find this trick useful.

Same issue here. I think this could be same bug as in 4.3 and 6.0. Reconfiguring servers or whole domain is no option for us.

Apple, please fix that again!

I have the same problem: We use a .local domain locally and until 7.1.2 everything worked perfectly, but now after the upgrade to iOS 8.0.2, connections to our xxx.local domain time out. This is a big problem in enterprise environments!

In our case, a museum, we serve audio files to several hundred visitors per day and suddenly all freshly updated iOS devices can't get them from the local server. :/ Android and older iOS versions work just fine though.

I made a packet trace with tcpdump, I am not sure, but it looks like iPhones with iOS 8 do not honor the local DNS server, or double-check its results with its own preferred DNS servers on the Internet? Did anyone of you find out what's happening under the hood?

How are we supposed to serve stuff in the Intranet? Changing all URLs to IPs is not an option!

I think we should create a radar bug report!

Please Apple, fix this bug.

I did some further research and it looks as if iOS 8 does MDNS queries only when they want to resolve a .local domain. I did some diagnostic packet capturing on my device and, the only packets that got sent out, were two multicast packets. (One for IPv4 and another one for IPv6)

But no regular DNS queries. Maybe that has something to do with Bonjour?

I found this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3473

But I already have "local" in the search list which is served by our DHCP server.

I also tried www.foo.local or just foo.local, no difference so far!

So I see 2 possibilities:

1) Apple fixes the bug and does both a Unicast DNS query to the DNS server they got via DHCP and a MDNS query, so if one of them fails, we still get a result from the other

2) Apple considers .local domains to be used only for Bonjour/Zeroconf. Then we'd have to set up Avahi daemons to respond to the multicast DNS queries. Right?

Please share your ideas!

I Have the same problem. I called Apple Support right after the upgrade. After explaining the device will not resolve local names even after changing the DNS server IP at the wireless interface in the iPad or iPhone they said they will email or call me back. It is being more than a week and nothing happen.

The issue is with WiFi or cellular connection, at least in my case connecting to a Cisco router using L2TP. I have IP access to the VPN network but local names do not get resolved.

I don't unders why Apple did not follow up as promised, I'm sure this is affecting an important number of users of the business community.

Same here....

All my other Windows/Apple/Linux devices resolve the .local domain... have for 3-4 years. I updates my IPAD and it is like I turned the lights off to all my local servers and non bonjour devices. Thank you for this post.... I did not connected the dots on this one.

Apple, Please comment back on this. Why no .local? Is this a device firewall issue? Are you addressing security considerations or is this just an oversight?

We are also experiencing the issue with DNS resolutions after updating to iOS 8.  I've confirmed that 8.0.2 does not seem to address this.  In our case, we have a WebDAV server that could no longer be accessed by its hostname (.local appended).  This is an internally accessible site only - no external access.  Fortunately for us, I was able to create a second site binding to the IP address of the server.  This takes DNS out of the picture, but is totally unacceptable.  Why are we being forced to find workaround a for something has been working for years?   Not to mention, DNS resolution is an ESSENTIAL aspect of any OS.  Eggheaded move in this area.

We need an ETA for the fix so that we can plan accordingly. This means going back to iPhone 5 with IOS 7x for me. Looks like this breakage happened twice before in earlier IOS releases and this is the 3rd time!!

How was this bug missed from the beta phase? Given the fact this is the most simplest of bugs and most businesses use the .local domain, you wonder how something like this went unnoticed during the beta testing phase. Plus, two minor releases later and we're still without a fix.

http://bit.ly/1wQOgiz

my local domain is .lan and not .local

I have been having loads of problem since ios 8 on my iPhones and iPads. Nothing resolves and keeps timing out.

I have to keep turning the Wi-Fi off and on and ferrying till it works.

Analysing the traffic, it doesn't look like it's doing a query.

Anyone else got a .lan domain or similar issue?

DJBarto, none of the "local" domains are being resolved, not even changing or forcing the DNS servers to be your local ones.

I don't understand why Apple is not responding at this issue, not even to say " ey, we are working on it "

Apple, are you reading these postings? What about my phone call? Is any Apple Engineer working on this?