Invalid domains in DNS don't work on mac/*nix like systems

Posted by David Mulder on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by David Mulder
Published on 2012-06-16T06:40:23Z Indexed on 2012/06/16 9:17 UTC
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At work we use domains like abc-01, which work fine on windows. Whilst developing mobile applications we already saw that this doesn't work on both iOS and android which we fixed for a few specific domains (by setting the dns up that abc-01.def.local also works in those) and was assumed to be caused by it being an invalid domain. Now however it's necessary to connect through VPN from a mac and changing all relevant domains is not an option at the moment (far too many of them and would require changing the settings of far too many applications), so I was hoping whether somebody knows a trick or setting to get this to work on mac (or even linux in general).

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