Hi Norman, You are after 'libnss-mdns'
It is even packaged in debian, all you need to do is install the package (libnss-mdns) then edit /etc/nsswitch.conf so that the hosts line looks something like this: hosts: files dns mdns (essentially add mdns on the end) That said, this is apparently better: hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 According to the official documentation. This will allow .local domaisn to be resolved as per normal For more information see http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/ Trent On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:29:04PM -0400, Norman Ramsey wrote: > I just discovered Avahi, and I am really impressed. It is exactly > what I needed! > > I've doctored my slogin and ssh scripts so that if they see a hostname > of the form *.local, they will ask avahi-resolve to get the IP address. > But what I would really like to do is somehow change my system resolver, > so that *any* application will send .local requests to avahi and > other requests to the standard DNS service. Does anybody know > a way to change the resolver library, or to change the configuration > for named, to make this happen? > > I am running Debian etch with named from the bind9 package. > > > Norman Ramsey > _______________________________________________ > avahi mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi -- Trent Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bur.st Networking Inc. _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
