On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Joey Hess wrote:

> Package: base-files
> Version: 3.1.6
> Severity: normal
> 
> I think it would be nice if Debian could support zeroconf networking by
> default for eg, laptops. To make that work, we need nDNS support, which
> is supplied by libnss-mdns. However, currently it will not work without
> manual editing of /etc/nsswitch.conf. I think we should support that by
> default.
> 
> I've tested this line in /etc/nsswitch.conf and it seems to work ok with
> and without libnss-mdns installed, for looking up hostnames with DNS and
> mDNS. So it seems it could just be made the default:
> 
> hosts:          files dns mdns

Ok, I trust you. Will be done in the next revision.
Sorry for the delay in replying to this.


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