Package: base-files Version: 3.1.6 Severity: normal I think it would be nice if Debian could support zeroconf networking by default for eg, laptops. To make that work, we need nDNS support, which is supplied by libnss-mdns. However, currently it will not work without manual editing of /etc/nsswitch.conf. I think we should support that by default.
I've tested this line in /etc/nsswitch.conf and it seems to work ok with and without libnss-mdns installed, for looking up hostnames with DNS and mDNS. So it seems it could just be made the default: hosts: files dns mdns -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.27 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages base-files depends on: ii base-passwd 3.5.10 Debian base system master password ii gawk [awk] 1:3.1.4-2.0.1 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr ii mawk [awk] 1.3.3-11 a pattern scanning and text proces base-files recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- see shy jo
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