Make sure you have the line
mdns off
in /etc/host.conf on your incoming SMTP servers.
One of my colleagues in our network engineering team discovered today that
ppswitch was spewing multicast packets, much to our surprise. It turns out
that recent versions of glibc have quietly added suppo
Tony Finch wrote:
> Make sure you have the line
> mdns off
> in /etc/host.conf on your incoming SMTP servers.
IIRC, /etc/host.conf is for libc5. libc6 uses /etc/nsswitch.conf
> One of my colleagues in our network engineering team discovered today that
> ppswitch was spewing multicast packe
> Make sure you have the line
> mdns off
> in /etc/host.conf on your incoming SMTP servers.
I've got a system with glibc 2.5 and my /etc/host.conf file simply has:
order hosts, bind
multi off
which I believe is "standard" amongst most all glibc installs. If I'm not
mistaken though, DNS re
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Eli Sand wrote:
>
> If I'm not mistaken though, DNS resolving is first checked for in
> /etc/nsswitch.conf and goes from there.
That's irrelevant. The mdns handling occurs in the DNS resolver, i.e.
between the nsswitch and bind.
> I have no problems with my domain/host resolut
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 06:59:45PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote:
> Make sure you have the line
> mdns off
> in /etc/host.conf on your incoming SMTP servers.
>
> One of my colleagues in our network engineering team discovered today that
> ppswitch was spewing multicast packets, much to our surpris
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Dave Evans wrote:
>
> Are you sure it's glibc doing it? Could you point me towards what makes you
> think it's glibc? Of course maybe I just missed something /really/ obvious
> :-)
On further investigation, this stupidity is specific to SuSE and Gentoo
which have patched gli
