Server issues

[Adam McGreggor]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 06:10:54PM +0100, Ante Karamatić wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:15:59 +0100
> "Sebastien Estienne" <sebastien.estienne at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > sebest at delly2:~$ cat /etc/default/avahi-daemon
> > # 0 = don't start, 1 = start
> > AVAHI_DAEMON_START=1
> 
> But, that's not enough. Avahi (and everything done to make it
> usable) breaks some stuff on computers on which it doesn't even run.
> 
> Best example is broken PPTP (VPN) when the other side is using .local
> domain. Then you have to edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and remove all the
> mdns stuff.
> 
> I'm all for removing avahi. It did me more harm than good.

I can't stand it either.