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
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages base-files depends on:
ii base-passwd3.5.10Debian base system master password
ii gawk [awk] 1:3.1.4-2.0.1 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr
ii mawk [awk] 1.3.3-11 a pattern scanning and text proces
base-files recommends no packages.
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