DNS issue - Help me understand

I've been having issues getting ServerWMC/PVR WMC working and it may be due to a DNS issue. Can someone explain the following:

SpareBR:/etc # cat resolv.conf

# Generated by Connection Manager

search mydomain.local

nameserver 10.2.1.2

SpareBR:/etc # ping -c 2 htserver

PING htserver (10.2.1.4): 56 data bytes

64 bytes from 10.2.1.4: seq=0 ttl=128 time=0.341 ms

64 bytes from 10.2.1.4: seq=1 ttl=128 time=0.823 ms

--- htserver ping statistics ---

2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max = 0.341/0.582/0.823 ms

SpareBR:/etc # ping -c 2 htserver.mydomain.local

ping: bad address 'htserver.mydomain.local'

SpareBR:/etc # nslookup htserver 10.2.1.2

Server: 10.2.1.2

Address 1: 10.2.1.2 domctl.mydomain.local

Name: htserver

Address 1: 10.2.1.4 htserver.mydomain.local

SpareBR:/etc # nslookup htserver.mydomain.local 10.2.1.2

Server: 10.2.1.2

Address 1: 10.2.1.2 domctl.mydomain.local

nslookup: can't resolve 'htserver.mydomain.local'

Why isn't htserver.mydomain.local resolving? It works fine from a openelec system with the same settings (resolv.conf, netconfig).

I spent quite a bit of time trying to get it to work. Gave up and installed Openelec instead. Openelec worked fine and I was able to get everything working without issue (other than the initial install). I expected both would be pretty similar and have the same issues but that didn't turn out to be the case.

Regardless, there's something messed up in Libreelec's DNS as the example above should find htserver.mydomain.local.

I tried 8.1.0 and it also does not resolve full domain names properly in my environment. The reeults of the above commands is identical. Openelec does work properly.

There's something different with Libreelec.

The nslookup/ping works fine on Win 7, Openelec 6.0.3, Ubuntu 16.04.2, Win 2008 R2, Openelec 8.0.4, etc. Most are DHCP and some are static. If something is messed up on my end I'm open to suggestions.

I opened a thread in the bugs forum. It turns out Libreelec reserves local domains for mDNS. See

DNS Domain resolution fails