Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows XP do not enable LLMNR by
default.
Christian, could you please tell us, for each OS mentioned, how to
enable
LLMNR? That would enable everyone participating in this discussion to
witness for themselves exactly how it works and what it does.
You would have to get an experimental implementation of LLMNR from some
developer site. To the best of my knowledge, Microsoft is not shipping
this code. In these systems, ad hoc names are resolved through NETBIOS.
The ".local" queries observed in Peter's root servers is most certainly
not caused by an LLMNR implementation.
In the absence of LLMNR, if an application tries to resolve "host.local"
through, say, gethostbyname, then the query will indeed be forwarded to
the local DNS service. The responsibility for the ".local" traffic lies
mostly into whoever is promoting use of this top level domain and coding
that use in applications.
-- Christian Huitema
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