named doesn't start

[Mike Alexander]

--On August 5, 2007 12:00:12 PM -0400 "Daniel J. Luke" 
<dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:

> nslookup and dig let you know that your bind conf is serving up an A
> record for that hostname, but it won't work.
>
> Apple's resolver implementation sends queries for local. (the local
> TLD) to Rendezvous, so the query never gets to your nameserver.

It's possible to use .local as both a Rendezvous domain and a normal 
TLD.  See <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107800> for 
more information.  I've done this for ages and it works fine.

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Mike Alexander           mta at umich.edu
Ann Arbor, MI            PGP key ID: BEA343A6