I can use avahi discovery to find other zerconfig hosts on the network and I can see their hostnames and services with addresses:ports. I can use these IPs to access advertised services, however, when I use {other}.local, it is not resolved. Which part am I missing?
/etc/resolv.conf:
nameserver 100.x.x.x # probably a dns server owned by my vpn company
search lan
You will need to check your /etc/nsswitch.conf. This file is used to order different lookup services. The hosts line is important for DNS.
It also makes a difference if you use systemd-resolved or not.
Yeah, these are all according to arch specs, if I am not mistaken…
# Name Service Switch configuration file.
# See nsswitch.conf(5) for details.
passwd: files mymachines systemd
group: files [SUCCESS=merge] mymachines systemd
shadow: files
publickey: files
hosts: mymachines mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] files myhostname dns
networks: files
protocols: files
services: files
ethers: files
rpc: files
netgroup: files