name resolution

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Liam Proven schreef op 23-11-2017 16:22:

> .local has special side effects and breaks bits of the modern TCP/IP
> network stack.
> 
> I suggest changing it.

Jesus christ you are right, mdns4_minimal breaks the resolution.

The only...

thing...

Such fuckers again.

The only special side effect is that it contains a [NOTFOUND=return] 
line that breaks the further resolution.

But mdns4_minimal also causes a timeout of about 4 seconds before it 
proceeds.

So you really have to put it after dns.

Great, so all Linux boxes are broken now.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local

Thanks.

The only thing that breaks it though is nsswitch.conf.

So because "they" took over this name (even though it is not useful to 
me)

*I* now can't use it anymore.

Then, when .here becomes popular, they take that over too ;-).

Lol but now I know what patch to execute, thanks.