> > 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?
> You are after 'libnss-mdns' I have this installed, and I made the suitable change to my /etc/nsswitch.conf: > hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 And when I try 'getent hosts toller.local', as suggested in Lennart's documentation, it works nicely. But unfortunately, many applications appear not to use the glibc NSS functionality: neither curl, nor ssh, nor firefox see 'toller.local'. Even worse, I must have my system configured badly (no cacheing?), because the time required to look up a *nonlocal* host is appalling. Notice the difference here between local and nonlocal lookup: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10706 ; time getent hosts toller.local 192.168.2.4 toller.local real 0m0.36s user 0m0.00s sys 0m0.00s : [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10705 ; time getent hosts toller 140.247.60.147 toller toller.eecs.harvard.edu real 0m10.01s user 0m0.00s sys 0m0.00s Ten seconds to look up a hostname! Whereas the same nonlocal lookup using host(1) is lightning fast (presumably exploiting a local cache). : [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10704 ; time host toller toller.eecs.harvard.edu A 140.247.60.147 real 0m0.08s user 0m0.00s sys 0m0.00s This starts to look like a GNU NSS problem, not an Avahi problem, but I will refine my original question: is there some way to get my local DNS named (from bind9) to ask Avahi about hosts in the .local domain? Norman _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
