On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:05:23 +0100 "Sebastien Estienne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Nov 20, 2007 6:10 PM, Ante Karamatiæ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:15:59 +0100 >> "Sebastien Estienne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/default/avahi-daemon >> > # 0 = don't start, 1 = start >> > AVAHI_DAEMON_START=1 >> >> But, that's not enough. Avahi (and everything done to make it >> usable) breaks some stuff on computers on which it doesn't even run. >> >> Best example is broken PPTP (VPN) when the other side is using .local >> domain. Then you have to edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and remove all the >> mdns stuff. > >Could you be more specific about the issue you had? > >FYI macOsX has exactly the same feature enabled by default, it's >called "bonjour" and the process on OsX is mDNSResponder >the .local is the default zeroconf domain, one common issue is that >microsoft also recommend to use this domain >"http://support.microsoft.com/kb/296250";, this clashes with zeroconf >.local > >i think it's not specific to avahi, but to zeroconf and dns in general. > And the Microsoft one is the one the IETF standardized. All the more reason not to install, let alone enable, it by default.
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