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From: Lennart Poettering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 21:59:16 +0200 To: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Stop! Wait!] Organization: .phi. User-Agent: Leviathan/19.8.0 [zh] (Cray 3; I; Solaris 4.711; Console) On Sat, 14.10.06 13:51, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Lennart Poettering wrote: > > Hmm, I don't remember if I already replied to this. Anyway: the new patch > > looks fine to me. > > > > Thanks for gviving nss-mdns your love! ;-) > > Unfortunatly, it doesn't seem fine for at least one user: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=392813 Ok, I thought about it now. The user should remove "search local" from /etc/resolv.conf. mdns{4,6,}_minimal is not really useful in this case. For now, use either "search local", or mdns_minimal, but not both at the same time, because they're kind of incompatible. I always stress that "search local" is a problematic configuration option, that only people feeling overly lucky should use. In fact the mDNS spec explicitly suggests not to use this. The ability to use "search local" was contributed externelly, and I do not use it myself. Yes, we can work around this misbehaviour in nss-mdns, however I am not going to "fix" this in the near future. The user used nss-mdns in a non-recommended way. He's welcome to do so, but he must expect that he's shooting himself in the foot. I will put this on my todo list, but as a low-priority item. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering; lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553; GPG 0x1A015CC4; http://0pointer.net/lennart/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- see shy jo
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