Server issues

[Sebastien Estienne]

On Nov 20, 2007 6:10 PM, Ante Karamatić <ivoks at grad.hr> 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.

Could you be more specific about the issue you had?

FYI macOsX has exactly the same feature enabled by default, it's
called "bonjour" and the process on OsX is mDNSResponder
the .local is the default zeroconf domain, one common issue is that
microsoft also recommend to use this domain
"http://support.microsoft.com/kb/296250", this clashes with zeroconf
.local

i think it's not specific to avahi, but to zeroconf and dns in general.

>
> I'm all for removing avahi. It did me more harm than good.
>
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