Package: avahi-daemon Version: 0.6.23-3lenny1 Severity: normal File: avahi-daemon
I was wondering why in the iptables command, reverse lookup on my local network was taking so long. It works fast with nslookup. My DNS server is the dnsmasq running on the Linksys WRT54GL (Tomato firmware). Of course it knows the 192.168 network! I ran an strace and discovered that iptables is talking to some Unix domain socket to some avahi daemon, which turns out to be some non-invention related to some idiotic idea from Apple. I promptly ran "apt remove avahi-daemon". Problem went away; iptables listing now instant. WTF is this good for, why is it installed by default, and why does it choke on things that your regular DNS doesn't? -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.5 APT prefers proposed-updates APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages avahi-daemon depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii bind9-host [h 1:9.6.ESV.R1+dfsg-0+lenny2 Version of 'host' bundled with BIN ii dbus 1.2.1-5+lenny1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libavahi-comm 0.6.23-3lenny1 Avahi common library ii libavahi-core 0.6.23-3lenny1 Avahi's embeddable mDNS/DNS-SD lib ii libc6 2.7-18lenny4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcap2 2.11-2 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libdaemon0 0.12-2lenny1 lightweight C library for daemons ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-5+lenny1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libexpat1 2.0.1-4+lenny3 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip Versions of packages avahi-daemon recommends: pn libnss-mdns <none> (no description available) Versions of packages avahi-daemon suggests: pn avahi-autoipd <none> (no description available) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org