[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#805401: /bin/ping6: ping6 does not correctly handle avahi .local addresses

[Simon McVittie]

Control: retitle -1 ping6 does not resolve Avahi .local addresses by default
Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/lathiat/nss-mdns/issues/62
Control: merge 466014 -1
Control: affects 466014 iputils-ping

On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 at 16:53:00 +0200, Benjamin Peter wrote:
> just a moment after writing I found an article, saying to modify
> nsswitch.conf as follows
> 
> hosts:          files mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns
> #hosts:          files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
> 
> Maybe this could be a setting for everyone?

The reason why this is not the default is that it significantly slows
down name resolution in some programs. More details are available in
upstream bug <https://github.com/lathiat/nss-mdns/issues/62>.

The next upload of nss-mdns will mention this in README.Debian. I don't
intend to change the default in Debian unless the upstream developer of
nss-mdns changes their recommendation, but you are welcome to make this
configuration change locally.

    smcv