On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Lennart Poettering<lenn...@poettering.net> wrote: > We used to support that. But I removed it because that cannot work > properly. The simple reason is that would make every name a potential > mDNS name which would then mean that we'd have to resolve every > hostname via mDNS first, which is not really useful however, since > resolving host names that don't exist with mDNS will result in long > timeout. Which hence means, resolving *any* name will take 2s or so.
Ok. But, can you explain why mDNS would be first? Wouldn't the typical search order be for /etc/hosts, then DNS, and mDNS? I guess I'm not getting why every DNS would take 2 seconds. Wouldn't that only be for failed lookups? > I guess you need to accept that typing .local as suffix for all local > hostnames is the only viable option. Not the end of the world, true. I should probably rename that machine I have called "local", though, as typing local.local is a bit odd... -- Bill Moseley mose...@hank.org _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list avahi@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
