How to resolve LAN hostnames with Ubuntu
By default, Ubuntu desktop installation will provide DNS resolving configured, however in Ubuntu server installation avahi-daemon (or mdnsresponder) is needed to be installed to provide local LAN DNS resolution. In my case, i found the error “Temporary failure in name resolution” when I tried to resolve a machine of my LAN from Ubuntu. yvoictra@zoar:~$ ping erie.local ping: erie.local: Temporary failure in name resolution To solve this issue, there is no need to install a DNS server in the LAN....