[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#392813: FWD: Re: [mzqrovna@0pointer.de: Stop! Wait!]

[Joey Hess]

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From: Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 21:59:16 +0200
To: Joey Hess <joeyh at debian.org>
Subject: Re: [mzqrovna at 0pointer.de: Stop! Wait!]
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On Sat, 14.10.06 13:51, Joey Hess (joeyh at debian.org) wrote:

> Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > Hmm, I don't remember if I already replied to this. Anyway: the new patch
> > looks fine to me.
> > 
> > Thanks for gviving nss-mdns your love! ;-)
> 
> Unfortunatly, it doesn't seem fine for at least one user:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=392813

Ok, I thought about it now.

The user should remove "search local" from
/etc/resolv.conf. mdns{4,6,}_minimal is not really useful in this
case.

For now, use either "search local", or mdns_minimal, but not both at
the same time, because they're kind of incompatible.

I always stress that "search local" is a problematic configuration
option, that only people feeling overly lucky should use.  In fact the
mDNS spec explicitly suggests not to use this. The ability to use
"search local" was contributed externelly, and I do not use it
myself. 

Yes, we can work around this misbehaviour in nss-mdns, however I am not
going to "fix" this in the near future. The user used nss-mdns in a
non-recommended way. He's welcome to do so, but he must expect that
he's shooting himself in the foot. I will put this on my todo list,
but as a low-priority item.

Lennart

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