[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#960942: Bug#960942: Bug#960942: Bug#960942: network-manager: only (undocumented) numeric values work for connection.mdns

[David Bremner]

Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> writes:

> Am 18.05.20 um 20:40 schrieb David Bremner:
>> Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> writes:
>> 
>>>>
>>>> I was looking at NetworkManager.conf(5).
>>>
>>> Hm, I don't find any reference to connection.mdns= in
>>> NetworkManager.conf(5), which is not surprising, since
>>> NetworkManager.conf is about configuring the NetworkManager daemon and
>>> not about creating connection profiles.
>> 
>> I guess the = breaks the search; it's discussed in CONNECTION SECTION
>> 
>> line 389
>> 
>>    connection.mdns
>>            If unspecified, the ultimate default values depends on the DNS plugin. With systemd-resolved the
>>            default currently is "no" (0) and for all other plugins also "no" (0).
>> 
>
> But "0" is listed there, so not undocumented here.
> I'm confused.

1 and 2 are not documented here. I had to find the correct values by
trial and error. I was unable to determine from the documentation if the
behaviour I was seeing was intended or a bug.

Hence the bug report.