Thanks. I hit this yesterday. We already have some mDNS support present for Sugar collaboration in a network when a School Server is absent; we have the Avahi packages, but as you rightly point out we don't have the name service switch module for mDNS, and so a gethostbyname(3) doesn't look at that namespace.
I have looked for but cannot see evidence of it being removed, it seems it was simply not included. Does mDNS for Internet-in-a-Box work for you in the face of the enthusiastic suspend of our automatic power management feature? What would prevent a network intruder, or a malicious user of OLPC OS, from supplanting http://know.local ? Installing nss-mdns as an RPM during XO customisation is practical if you use the right customisation tools, which in order of complexity are: - unlock the laptops and use the xo-custom script in mktinycorexo, thanks to Jerry, - unlock the laptops and make your own build, with the patch below, - sign an xo-custom script with deployment keys. Waiting for the next OLPC OS build is an option, but I don't know when that will be. I've raised ticket #12730 to track the enhancement request. >From bc224068e4976fce2cbbc4de9378f4cb425027fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 08:31:01 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] add mDNS support for host name resolution --- modules/base/kspkglist.10.core.inc | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/modules/base/kspkglist.10.core.inc b/modules/base/kspkglist.10.core.inc index 857157c..1ff5b4c 100644 --- a/modules/base/kspkglist.10.core.inc +++ b/modules/base/kspkglist.10.core.inc @@ -55,3 +55,6 @@ usb_modeswitch-data # provides firewall-offline-cmd, needed for kickstart firewalld + +# support mDNS name resolution for local network content repositories +nss-mdns -- 1.8.1.2 -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel