Server issues

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:05:23 +0100 "Sebastien Estienne" <sebastien.estienne at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Nov 20, 2007 6:10 PM, Ante Karamatiæ <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.
>
And the Microsoft one is the one the IETF standardized.  All the more reason not to install, let alone enable, it by default.

Scott K