I was having some trouble with it takeing about 10 seconds to resolve names on the local network like tight-seat.local.
My network stack is systemd-networkd and systemd-resolved, and it turns out that the issue here is that both these programs default to enabling LLMNR, a protocol invented by Microsoft that failed to be standardized because the standardization bodies realized that mDNS already existed and didn’t have massive security flaws.
Microsoft-bashing aside, the solution is to disable LLMNR and enable mDNS.
The Arch Linux wiki is very descriptive on this issue:
By default systemd-resolved enables mDNS responder, but both systemd-networkd and NetworkManager do not enable it for connections
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By default systemd-resolved enables LLMNR responder; systemd-networkd and NetworkManager enable it for connections.
The following /etc/systemd/network/mdns.network will disable LLMNR and enable mDNS:
[Match]
Name=enp* wlp*
[Network]
MulticastDNS=true
LLMNR=false
And that’s it.