On Sun, 28.06.09 09:23, Bill Moseley ([email protected]) wrote: > What I'd like is to be able to say "ssh foo" and have the resolver > first search /etc/hosts ("files" in nsswitch.conf), then search for > "foo.local", and then if that fails search for "foo.hank.org" via a > normal dns lookup.
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. I guess you need to accept that typing .local as suffix for all local hostnames is the only viable option. 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
