Package: base Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream ipv6 Dear Maintainer,
I've sometimes been able to get Windows devices to interoperate with Debian devices knowing each other by thir hostnames on the local link using NetBIOS or Avahi/Bonjour. However, on some Windows 7 devices, even after adding several permissive rules to the firewall and installing Bonjour, some client software is not able to resolve ".LOCAL" names. Examination with Wireshark suggests Windows is sending out LLMNR requests. It would be nice for interoperabilty if Debian hosts could by default respond to LLMNR for their own hostname. Upstream 'avahi' has an old ticket for such a possible feature... http://avahi.org/ticket/125 There's also an independent SourceForge project 'xllmnrd' to provide LLMNR responder by itself... https://sourceforge.net/projects/xllmnrd/ (Note also yet another SourceForge project 'zcnr' "LLMNR implentation for Linux" which has released no code) LLMNR is defined in RFC 4795. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.7 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
