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Trouble to access ".local" domain

In my company we use a lot of .local domain for internal services.


With maverick i have access to this domains, but with yosemite i didn't have access.


I already try to look at mDNSResponder by did'nt find why this didn't work with all the "*.local" domain 😟

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 20, 2014 1:33 AM

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Posted on Oct 23, 2014 8:40 AM

We found a solution that worked for us!


After running

sudo discoveryutil mdnsactivedirectory yes

in the terminal we're able to resolve .local FQDNs again. This gets it to use regular (unicast) DNS for .local domains rather than just using multicast DNS (mDNS, aka Bonjour) to look-up .local addresses.

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Trouble to access ".local" domain

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