Just when you thought it was safe to recommend .local again…
While I wasn’t expecting that Mac OS 10.4 would solve all the world’s problems, I was pleasantly surprised to find that Apple worked around their boo-boo related to the .local top-level domain multicast DNS lookups. Never in a million years would I have expected the problem to crop up with pre-Mac OS X. But it did.
I’ve got an old iMac that I’m integrating into my test network to have an OS 9 machine around for reproducing problems, etc. Right out of the gate, I’m not able to get Outlook 2001 to connect to my test Exchange server. I do a little more digging and find out, once again, it’s related to the .local namespace I have set up in my test lab.
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