### Author:  [@wbk](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/wbk)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2025, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/how-to-connect-using-a-local-url/34658/3 "2025-01-18T15:17:09Z")
> [@narF](#):
>
> bump 😅
I’m not so familiar with mDNS and .local domains (also, sorry for not replying in French, which I’m also not too familiar with 😛 ) .
There are conflicting opinions on the 'Net about the merit of using .local domains for non-mDNS purposes that you may be familiar with.
> [@narF](#):
>
> J’ai d’autres machines et raspberry-pi sur ce même réseau local et j’arrive à me connecter sur eux en utilisant `.local`. Le problème est spécifique à cette nouvelle machine yunohost.
Do you have more Yunohosts in this network, or do they run something else? What is in your `etc/yunohost/mdns.yml` ?
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### Author:  [@narF](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/narF)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2025, 4:54am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/how-to-connect-using-a-local-url/34658/4 "2025-01-21T04:54:33Z")
> [@wbk](#):
>
> There are conflicting opinions on the 'Net about the merit of using .local domains for non-mDNS purposes that you may be familiar with.
No, I’m not familiar at all. Could you elaborate? I don’t know what you mean by “non-mDNS purposes” either. 😅
> [@wbk](#):
>
> Do you have more Yunohosts in this network, or do they run something else?
Yes:
- 1 raspberry pi which I can connect to using `pi4.local`
- and 2 computers which I _cannot_ connect to using their `.local` addresses
> [@wbk](#):
>
> What is in your `etc/yunohost/mdns.yml` ?
It contains this:
```auto
domains:
- yunohost.local
- bidule.local
```
To compare, I looked at the same file on my raspberry pi that I can connect to using `pi4.local` and it shows:
```auto
domains:
- yunohost.local
- onlyoffice.local
- pi4.local
```
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### Author:  [@wbk](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/wbk)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2025, 8:01am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/how-to-connect-using-a-local-url/34658/5 "2025-01-21T08:01:33Z")
> [@narF](#):
>
> > [@wbk](#):
> >
> > …things…that you may be familiar with.
>
> No, I’m not familiar at all. Could you elaborate?
I have no resource with a definitive answer, but recalled reading about it when at some point I wondered why I had “French packages” (with “bonjour” in the name) on my system.
Searching “Can I use .local for my server?” , the [first](https://serverfault.com/questions/47087/using-local-for-internal-websites) few [results](https://serverfault.com/questions/811712/is-it-ok-to-use-local-in-an-active-directory-domain-name) that I clicket have points in favour as well against doing so.
Upon reading some more, the reason turns out to be something different than I expected. My expectation was: don’t manually configure a host on mDNS, but let the system do it; while _actually_ the warning is: don’t put .local in your regular DNS… which seems quite an open door to me.
Having found that, I also found some pointers that _do_ seem useful to the case at hand 😛
- mDNS expects a 1:1 relationship between hostname and IP address (per IP family). If `/etc/yunohost/mdns.yml` is used to configure mDNS, that might explain your problem (yunohest+bidule), but not the case where it _does_ work (yunohost+onlyoffice+pi4). Found in a [blogpost](https://andrewdupont.net/2022/01/27/using-mdns-aliases-within-your-home-network/), search for `--no-reverse` and `/etc/avahi/hosts` (I know there’s no Avahi on YNH, not mine anyway, but it is a long blogpost)
To add to the confusion, my YNH has _only_ online.local in `/etc/yunohost/mdns.yml, but does not listen to that. It does listen to yunohost.local
- Then there is a [suggestion](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/352237/avahi-daemon-and-local-domain-issues) alter /etc/nsswitch.conf, and change `mdns4_minimal` into `mdns4`
- [Finally](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/mqkcg1/why_do_some_of_my_computers_need_local_appended/), it _may_ make a difference to have `.local` in `/etc/resolv.conf`. On Yunohost, `/etc/resolv.conf` is managed by `resolvectl`, but on my YNH `resolvectl status` returns that the service is not found.
All in all, not quite a clear picture 😉
Please explain how, in case you get it solved!
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### Author:  [@narF](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/narF)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2025, 5:03am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/how-to-connect-using-a-local-url/34658/6 "2025-01-23T05:03:40Z")
So far, I tried to shutdown all my yunohost servers to avoid conflict, reboot the router (just in case), reboot the machine I want to connect using `bidule.local`, and… I still cannot connect. ☹
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2025, 5:04am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/how-to-connect-using-a-local-url/34658/7 "2025-02-22T05:04:03Z")
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