On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Rick Stevens <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/04/2016 11:09 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
>> On Fri, 4 Nov 2016 13:03:41 -0400
>> Michael B Allen wrote:
>>>
>>> Is mDNS supposed to coexist with DNS?
>>
>> I have no idea what is "supposed" to work, but I know
>> I always have to get rid of the mdns [notfound=return]
>> crap that is in my /etc/nsswitch.conf file by default
>> in order to get "normal" dns lookups to work.
>
> Yeah, I've never figured out why they do that. The default action for
> notfound is "continue". Why they abort further lookups by using
> "return" is silly and (IMHO) broken.

It only aborts if it's looking up a host with a domain of ".local" or
an ip address of 169.254.x.x.
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