New ZeroConf Spec

[Dick Davies]

On 27/07/06, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> On 7/27/06, Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis at kaarsemaker.net> wrote:
> > On do, 2006-07-27 at 12:18 +0100, Dick Davies wrote:
> > >   2. edit nsswitch.conf to explicitly enable mdns for the 'hosts'
> > > database.
> >
> > I noticed that recent base-files packages already enable mdns.
>
> uh-oh.  My horror level is back to full-on.
> - Dan

(Visions of Brando)

Agreed. That's potentially a little more dangerous, although

a) you need to install libnss-mdns for it to actually *do* anything
b) you need to be asking for hosts in the .local domain for this to
have any effect

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