[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#551651: avahi-daemon: avahi makes network reconnection extremely slow

[Josselin Mouette]

Package: avahi-daemon
Version: 0.6.25-1

Hi,

I had a discussion with GNOME people the other day, and some were 
wondering why NetworkManager takes so long to reconnect. It turns out 
the culprit is a script belonging to avahi-daemon:
 * dhclient launches resolvconf.
 * resolvconf launches the scripts in update-libc.d.
 * The only script here executes avahi-daemon-check-dns.sh.
 * This tool launches "host -t soa local.".
 * That commands has to time out before the connection is actually up.

I don’t know exactly what it is achieving, but such a long timeout is a 
real problem; without it the network could be back in a second or two.

I don’t know if it’s possible, but this script should probably be run in 
if-up.d instead to avoid preventing the network from being available.

Cheers,
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