For a general user with external DNS, I can understand that there’s going to be a lot of “NXDOMAIN” responses, but my system’s setup with an internal DNS, DHCP, etc and knows that “.home” doesn’t exist.
From an external DNS point of view, that’s true (& I agree), but internally, with my own DNS server and everything using a DNS Suffix searchlist of “.home” means that I can use “devicename” and it still resolves to the correct IP.
Using avahi and “.local” is great for those that don’t have any networking experience and / or want to just have everything automatically find everything else and that’s great for a system like this, but that’s not how I run my network (and this is a debate for another place).
So, from my point of view, you’re implementing avahi… cool, that’s the project’s choice… now, I just want to disable / bypass / use my own DNS for my system…
So, I’m just looking for options in the project here… the system can arrive pre-configured but I’d like to switch to “advanced mode” and change the defaults 
If that’s in an new “networking.yaml” (for example), or a webGUI page, that’s cool… command line’s less desirable, but if that gets me setup, then that’s what I’ll do.