I’ve worked at a certain company maintaining Linux servers and POS systems for retail stores across the country. The AD admin was MS certified and apparently am

I’ve worked at a certain company maintaining Linux servers and POS systems for retail stores across the country. The AD admin was MS certified and apparently among the certification materials they used to recommend companyname.local as the AD TLD. Meanwhile one of our software suppliers pulled samba which pulled avahi. It became a big headache at first and then we had to adjust all our image build process to avoid the collision between the domain and multicast DNS libraries.