Comments on: Making .local DNS address lookups work on Ubuntu Dapper

By: sil

sil — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:14:53 +0000

Chance: which Flash banner? There’s no Flash here.

By: Chance

Chance — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:00:33 +0000

I just wanted to comment that the content located here was not worth the 10 minutes it takes a dialup user to load your flash banner. Is that really necessary?

I guess I shouldn’t complain, I just wanted to be heard.

Thanks

By: Diogo

Diogo — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:21:10 +0000

Hi there!
How can I set up (maybe under nsswitch.conf) user permissions for Mac computers to access my Linux distro?

Thanks!

By: sil

sil — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 07:49:34 +0000

Dave: that’s exactly what I did; added “mdns” to nsswitch.conf and installed nss-mdns. It then worked for me. Sorry if that’s not the case any more…

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:10:52 +0000

This is completely ridiculous. I find your blog documenting your “aha!” moment but you don’t give clear instructions for how to reproduce this. I installed mss-ndns and added it to the host line of /etc/nsswitch.conf and local name resolution doesn’t work. Is this how you did it? Please give more details.

By: Michele

Michele — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:02:08 +0000

avahi-daemon recommends it, and I had it automatically installed by aptitude, I just love this little boy :)

By: James

James — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:47:10 +0000

Ah, but it does open a port to listen for replies - so do dhcp and libnss-dns. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2006-July/019680.html is a decent summary of the situation, but read the whole thread for more detail.

By: sil

sil — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 17:02:07 +0000

I understand why “no open ports” wins, and I think it’s a good policy. libnss-mdns doesn’t open a port, though, as I understand it. Even so, avahi should probably depend on it.

By: James

James — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 16:57:56 +0000

It’s not there by default due to the “no open ports” policy, which is also why avahi-daemon will be off by default. Apparently policy is more important than “works out of the box”.

By: Bald

Bald — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 07:29:37 +0000

Thats all well and good if you know what the h*ck Avahi is - may I suggest at least a link ? :-)

http://avahi.org/