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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2023-11-08 11:52:53 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2023-11-08 14:28:10 +0100
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parentservice: say explicitly that people should not use different NonBlocking= set... (diff)
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man: document that Domains=local bind the domain to unicast DNS, not mDNS
Fixes: #28983
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-resolved.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for details of how search and route-only domains are used.</para>
+ <para>Note that configuring the MulticastDNS domain <literal>local</literal> as search or routing
+ domain has the effect of routing lookups for this domain to classic unicast DNS. This may be used to
+ provide compatibility with legacy installations that use this domain in a unicast DNS context,
+ against the IANA assignment of this domain to pure MulticastDNS purposes. Search and routing domains
+ are a unicast DNS concept, they <emphasis>cannot</emphasis> be used to resolve single-label lookups
+ via MulticastDNS.</para>
+
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v229"/>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>