Control: reassign -1 libnss-mdns On Lu, 01 oct 12, 11:20:43, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > 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?
The gnome-desktop-environment meta-package doesn't exist anymore, so this bug is currently not assigned to any package. If my understanding is correct your suggestion for a note in README.Debian applies to libnss-mdns, so I'm reassigning accordingly. Kind regards, Andrei -- Looking after bugs reported against inexistent or removed packages
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