I recently started using mint, but I am not new to linux or networking. This issue that has me thoroughly confused. At work we have a domain that ends in .local I'll call it something.local from now on. Using firefox, telnet, ping, ssh, or putty (probably others) I am unable to connect by name to any of the A records or CNAMEs in something.local. I am however able to connect just fine using the IP addresses. So I assumed my dns settings were off, or for some reason I was just not resolving that domain. Here is the kicker though, when I use the host command it resolves the correct address.
Here is an example:
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Computer user # host server.something.local
server.something.local has address 10.9.8.7
Computer user # ping server.something.local
ping: unknown host server.something.local
I tried static addressing, and DHCP
currently using DHCP, /etc/resolv.conf has the correct DNS servers
I can resolve something.local addresses when I use dig, and nslookup to those DNS servers
I checked /etc/hosts and it is clear
I also made sure that I did not have a proxy set.