On Tue, 28.04.09 11:05, Matt LaPlante ([email protected]) wrote: > Please excuse the noob nature of this question, but I didn't see it > covered in the FAQ. I run a very mixed environment on my LAN, and > while I traditionally have used dynamic dns to deal with host lookups, > it's a definite pain to implement. The good side of it was that (when > working) I could have my local zone in my search path and hit any host > by name from any application. I've installed avahi to see if mDNS > could solve my hostname coordination problem across platforms in a > less monstrous way. So far it seems to be working superbly, but I > don't like having to type .local in order to resolve a host. No big > deal on occasion, but major overhead when done repeatedly! Is there a > way to search the .local domain during lookups so i can just ssh > [hostname] and have it work? I do *not* use a .local unicast domain.
We used to support that. But it's a bad idea so it's no longer supported. The reason is that for mDNS host names that don't exist resolving is very slow: we need to wait for a timeout to elapse before we assume that there is no machine on the LAN that owns that name. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
