Mike's solution of changing the hosts line of /etc/nsswitch.conf to read: hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns [NOTFOUND=return] mdns4
is exactly what I've been doing on all Avahi-enabled Linux machines for some time now, and Debian should really pick up this patch, or some variant. It does not solve the unicast .local lookups problem that others are having, but since that is now relatively rare, deprecated behavior, it should probably be solved as a configuration switch in a different patch. This patch _does_ solve the very common situation of long timeouts attempting a reverse lookup on an IP address that does not have a reverse record (any IP, not just local ones), without breaking lookups for computers without any unicast DNS resolver (e.g. avahi-autoipd). This patch will break multicast reverse lookups for IPs outside 169.254/16, but since those are a "bad idea" anyway, this is a no-brainer IMO. Sorry that I'm not familiar with the Debian dev process, but is there someone currently assigned to this bug? The patch must be close to a 1-liner, so I can contribute it if necessary. - Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
