[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#392813: looking at this bug..

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sat, 14.10.06 23:11, Walter Hofmann (debianbug-061013191800-b7fd at secretlab.mine.nu) wrote:

> > DO NOT USE "search local" UNLESS YOU REALLY KNOW WHAT YOU DO! And if
> > you do use it, don't file bugs about it. I am fully aware that it is
> > problematic. 
> 
> I read between the lines that the .local domain is something special for 
> nss-mdns!?

Yes, that's exactly the case.

.local is the multicast DNS domain. All host names ending in .local
are resolved exclusively via mDNS if nss-mdns is installed.

> But I definitely need "search local" in resolv.conf. Otherwise, random 
> services on this machine will break because I didn't enter the fqdn in 
> many places.

I guess then you should disable or deinstall nss-mdns. 

> But somehow, problably due to some dependency or recommendation, 
> nss-mdns got installed on my system and gets in bind's way.

> So whether nss-mdns does or doesn't support "search local" is of no 
> concern to me -- I just doesn't want it to interfere with my otherwise 
> working setup.

I am sorry, but I guess your setup is simply incompatible with
Zeroconf/Bonjour/Rendezvous/mDNS/DNS-SD/Avahi. If you cannot fix your
setup to use a different unicast DNS domain, then I guess you should
probably deinstall Avahi and nss-mdns, or a least disable it. It won't
work reliable in such a setup.

Lennart

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