[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#406272: avahi-daemon: please supply way to disable checking for .local unicast domains

[Sven Koch]

Package: avahi-daemon
Version: 0.6.16-2
Severity: wishlist


hallo,

please supply a way to disable the checks for .local unicast domains and
disabling avahi if one is found - more important a way to skip the tedious
multi second delays when interfaces are not connected to the network yet,
but they are "ifupped".
(perhaps with a setting in /etc/default/avahi-daemon if you don't want to
change the default behaviour)

I am using avahi-daemon on a laptop with mostly static ip setups, together
with ifscheme to switch to the location where I am currently. At hibernate
time, my wireless lan interface if brough down with ifdown (which stops
wpa_supplicant) and the ugly binary ipw3945-daemon is stopped, too. At
wakeup time, the daemon is started again (reinitializing my wireless card),
followed by a ifup - but it naturally has now an interface setting which
will 95% of the time not match the wireless settings of the new location,
resulting in the "host" dns-lookup taking multiple settings until timeout.

At the ifscheme time switching to the new ip setup I will have to wait
again, the host lookup needs to time out until the new wpa connection
has been established, delaying the startup of my vpn connections.

Second at boottime, my laptop starts with an ethernet setup of my home lan -
but when booting without being at home or without the ethernet cable
connected I have to wait, too, for the f*cking dns-lookup to timeout.

As I don't care about any .local unicast domains which may exist and am
happy if they are overridden by avahi all the time, please support a way to
get fast bootup and network-switching back.

Greetings,
Sven

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-sdinet44-aurora
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages avahi-daemon depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.101        Add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                        1.0.2-1      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libavahi-common3            0.6.16-2     Avahi common library
ii  libavahi-core4              0.6.16-2     Avahi's embeddable mDNS/DNS-SD lib
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1                     1:1.10-14    support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libdaemon0                  0.10-1       lightweight C library for daemons
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.0.2-1      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1                   1.95.8-3.4   XML parsing C library - runtime li

Versions of packages avahi-daemon recommends:
ii  libnss-mdns                   0.9-0.1    NSS module for Multicast DNS name 

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