Package: base-files
Version: 3.1.9
Since libnss-mdns is not part of the base, references to it should not be
in base. The hosts line of /etc/nsswitch.conf should be changed to:
hosts: files dns
If the hosts: line in /etc/nsswitch.conf contains mdns and libnss-mdns
is not installed a program will waste time trying to find the libnss_mdns
library.
Maybe when libnss-mdns is installed it should add this entry to
/etc/nsswitch.conf. However there are still some pitfalls with having mdns
enabled. If libnss-mdns is installed and you try to resolve an ip address
that does not exist in the DNS you will get about a 5 second delay. This
happens because it has to wait for the timeout on the
/var/run/avahi-daemon/socket - while avahi-daemon is trying to do a MDNS
lookup.
I am using Debian GNU/Linux sid, kernel linux-image-2.6.15-1-686
(2.6.15-4), libc6 2.3.5-13, libnss-mdns 0.7-1, and avahi-daemon 0.6.6-1.
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Ricardo Muggli ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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