> Please note that this line requires nss-mdns 0.8 to > work. Unfortunately, Debian unstable is still at 0.7. > > The Debian maintainer seems to be vanished without a trace.
I feel your pain---same thing happened to me. I eventually started packaging it myself on my own Debian repository. > > But unfortunately, many applications appear not to use the glibc NSS > > functionality: neither curl, nor ssh, nor firefox see > > 'toller.local'. > > Works fine here. I'll try 0.8 and let you know how it goes. > > Even worse, I must have my system configured badly (no cacheing?), > > because the time required to look up a *nonlocal* host is appalling... > > Hmm, have you added .local to /etc/resolv.conf? If so every non-local > host name is first resolved with .local appended on mDNS. non-existing > mDNS hostnames will always cause the query to time out. No; resolv.conf looks like this: search eecs.harvard.edu nameserver 192.168.2.1 > host(1) doesn't use any local cache. It uses unicast DNS, bypassing > NSS or anything. Probably my wireless router is cacheing DNS records. > mDNS and unicast DNS are related but not really compatible. Such a > "link" between mDNS and unicast DNS would definitely be hack and > probably not worth the effort. Fair enough. If both the functionality and performance problems are resolved in libnss-mdns 0.8, that will be great! Norman _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
