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    It does support .local, for multicast. It does not support it when it's configured through an unicast (ie, traditional DNS) domain server. Commented Aug 21, 2015 at 18:41
  • Would that be expected to work with, say, ping then? Commented Aug 21, 2015 at 18:43
  • From any host with mDNS, yes; .local is the default multicast, local-link domain. It does require the Avahi (or Bonjour) mDNS server be running on the host, and an mDNS-aware resolver (nss-mdns) on the other machine looking-up the name. Commented Aug 21, 2015 at 18:45