On Wednesday 21 November 2007 21:44, David L. Willson wrote: > On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:10:54 +0100, Ante [UTF-8?]Karamatić 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. > > > > I'm all for removing avahi. It did me more harm than good. > > Can we make Ubuntu fix Microsoft's split-horizon DNS bug, too? And the > other ones? Shouldn't we should fork Mozilla to make it render more like > IE? After all, IE is the standard, even though it's broken and > non-conformant to CSS. That CSS-conformant rendering does more harm than > good, too, doesn't it? > > Stop using .local for unicast, and everything works great. Microsoft's > problem. NOT Ubuntu's. Not MacOS's. Not SUSE's. I like that [Ubuntu] > Linux does things properly. By the by, does the default workgroup ~have~ > to be MSHOME? And why does 'dd' default to decimal megs/gigs, not > binary... > > Oh fine, I'll give it a rest.
I guess from my perspective having an OS (Desktop or Server) automatically start looking around for other computers to interact with by default and with no user interaction is, in fact, a very Microsoft kind of thing to do. I'll give it a rest too. Scott K -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
