severity 411978 serious thanks On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 03:41:20PM +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > > > I can understand that listing mdns first in nsswitch.conf, and mounting > > > /usr > > > over NFS, would break as a result of this bug; but this bug severity looks > > > overinflated to me, there are pretty apparent workarounds available (i.e., > > > don't configure nsswitch.conf in such a way that mdns is on the critical > > > path for mounting /usr).
> > The recommended way of configuring nss-mdns which makes lookups of > > .local speedy and doesn't cause real dns to lag, also causes it > > to fail *ALL* dns lookups if you cannot find the plugin (NOTFOUND=return) > Exactly, it's the default config of libnss-mdns that breaks.. > So one issue is that boot fails for nfs mounted /usr.. Another issue is that > postfix copies only the /lib/nss* modules in to it's chroot. Which you might > argue that it's a postfix bug. But it's assumption that only /lib stuff should > be enough to to dns lookups is valid imho and postfix might not be the only > daemon that assumes that. > So in the end i think it's grave because it breaks the assumption that /lib is > enough to basic dns lookups with the default/correct nsswitch setup for mdns Well, it's still not 'grave', but 'serious' seems fair. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
