name resolution

[Xen]

Tom H schreef op 24-11-2017 9:47:
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Joel Rees <joel.rees at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2017/11/24 6:34 "Tom H" <tomh0665 at gmail.com>:
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Xen <list at xenhideout.nl> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I just think it's another bad choice and it happens to have been
>>>> pushed by mr. SystemD himself.
>>>> 
>>>> Yes, Lennart Poettering also maintains the Avahi packages.
>>>> 
>>>> It's the same kind of "Your opinions don't matter" approach that we
>>>> see everywhere else.
>>>> 
>>>> He writes:
>>>> 
>>>> " Please note: The line above makes nss-mdns authoritative for the
>>>> .local domain. If you have a unicast DNS domain with the same name
>>>> you will no longer be able to resolve hosts from it. mDNS and a
>>>> unicast DNS domain named .local are inherently incompatible. Please
>>>> contact your local admistrator and ask him to move to a different
>>>> domain name since .local is to be used exclusively for Zeroconf
>>>> technology. [26]Further information."
>>>> 
>>>> "is to be used"
>>>> 
>>>> Because they decide that.
>>>> 
>>>> This encroachment on personal liberty goes on everywhere.
>>> 
>>> It was an Apple decision not Lennart one.
>> 
>> Or, if you prefer, Poettering using Apple as an excuse.
> 
> Lennart re-implemented Apple's Bonjour as avahi, in the same way that
> MS's smb was re-implemented by others as samba.

No one forced anyone to use SMB *or else*.

I don't think we need to be educated on the word "reimplementation".

The difference is in the coercion.