[reposted from https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/58413/#post-333984 after validating my mdns setup]
I am getting lots of errors in my logfiles using security/spiped (v1.5.0_1 on FreeBSD 11.0 amd64). NB spiped is not using mdns-based addresses specifically, only IPv4 or FQDN. 2016-11-06T10:17:00.398940+00:00 wintermute spiped: NSSWITCH(_nsdispatch): mdns_minimal, hosts, getaddrinfo, not found, and no fallback provided 2016-11-06T10:17:19.095431+00:00 wintermute spiped: NSSWITCH(_nsdispatch): mdns_minimal, hosts, getaddrinfo, not found, and no fallback provided ... # /etc/nsswitch.conf # nsswitch.conf(5) - name service switch configuration file # $FreeBSD: releng/11.0/etc/nsswitch.conf 301711 2016-06-09 01:28:44Z markj $ # group: files hosts: files mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns networks: files passwd: files shells: files services: files protocols: files rpc: files Switching to the simpler: hosts: files dns mdns resolve the spiped-related issue but presumably generates failing MDNS requests for .local domains to root nameservers, which is undesirable. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/ suggests the above format is reasonable. Is there anything I can do here to have the best of both worlds (working mdns, no root server spam, & happy spiped with tidy logs)? BTW spiped configs look like this: spiped_pipes="${spiped_pipes} COUCHDB_PRIMARY COUCHDB_BACKUP" spiped_pipe_COUCHDB_PRIMARY_mode="client" spiped_pipe_COUCHDB_PRIMARY_source="127.0.0.1:5984" spiped_pipe_COUCHDB_PRIMARY_target="c1.skunkwerks.at:45984" spiped_pipe_COUCHDB_PRIMARY_key="/usr/local/etc/spiped/couchdb.key" spiped_pipe_COUCHDB_BACKUP_mode="client" spiped_pipe_COUCHDB_BACKUP_source="127.0.0.1:5985" spiped_pipe_COUCHDB_BACKUP_target="c2.skunkwerks.at:45984" spiped_pipe_COUCHDB_BACKUP_key="/usr/local/etc/spiped/couchdb.key" Thanks Dave
