On 10/01/2012 02:26:25 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2011 at 16:11:07 -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > gnome-desktop-environment depends on gnome-user-share which, > > eventually, depends on avahi-daemon. MDNS greatly slows down > reverse > > dns (PTR) lookups > > You should be able to address this without changes to the metapackage > by removing libnss-mdns, which is recommended by avahi-daemon, but > leaving avahi-daemon installed and running. Result: Avahi continues > to work if applications like gnome-user-share explicitly use it > (via libavahi-* or direct use of its D-Bus API), but you can no > longer > resolve through Avahi via the glibc name service switch API (so > "ping foo.local" will no longer work). > > Removing mdns from nsswitch.conf but leaving mdns4_minimal might also > be worth considering for your situation: mdns4_minimal will only > resolve hostnames that match *.local or 169.254.*.*, and only with > IPv4.
Thanks for the response. Perhaps a note in README.Debian is called for? Karl <k...@meme.com> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org