avahi question - host.local not working

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 01:25:25PM +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On 14 October 2014 12:54, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> > In order to use Multicast DNS for name resolution (i.e. .local names)
> > you need to have:
> >
> > - libnss-mdns package installed
> > - mdns4 listed for hosts in /etc/nsswitch.conf (AFAIU this is done
> >   automatically when you install libnss-mdns)
> 
> Excellent, thanks.  libnss-mdns was not installed.  Having installed
> it .local name resolution works.  So the next question is whether it
> should be installed in Ubuntu Mate by default.  I don't know whether it is
> installed by default in Ubuntu 14.10.

It is pulled in by ubuntu-desktop on 14.04 (via Recommends).

Marius Gedminas
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