Package: avahi-daemon Version: 0.6.16-2 Followup-For: Bug #406272
This is a real annoyance for anyone booting a machine on a local network with no DNS server available. The host command in the line OUT=`LC_ALL=C host -t soa local. 2>&1` from /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-daemon hangs for quite a time before deciding that it cannot reach a DNS server. Is there any way to make the host command give up more quickly (I tried the -W flag but it didn't seem to work) or else to check that a DNS server is available before running the host command in the first place? -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.19.2 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages avahi-daemon depends on: ii adduser 3.101 Add and remove users and groups ii dbus 1.0.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libavahi-common3 0.6.16-2 Avahi common library ii libavahi-core4 0.6.16-2 Avahi's embeddable mDNS/DNS-SD lib ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcap1 1:1.10-14 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libdaemon0 0.10-1 lightweight C library for daemons ii libdbus-1-3 1.0.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3.4 XML parsing C library - runtime li Versions of packages avahi-daemon recommends: ii libnss-mdns 0.9-0.1 NSS module for Multicast DNS name -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
