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["Duzenbury, Rich" <RDuzenbury@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Per Jessen [mailto:per@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 1:25 PM
> To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Re: [SLE] Upgrading SuSE enterprise from 9.0 to 9.x
> 
> Duzenbury, Rich wrote:
> 
> > "Change in Resolver Library
> > Incompatible change: the resolver library treats the .local 
> top level 
> > domain as link-local domain and sends multicast DNS requests to the 
> > multicast address 224.0.0.251 port 5353 instead of normal DNS 
> > requests. If you already use the .local domain in your nameserver 
> > configuration you will have to switch to another domain name. See 
> > http://www.multicastdns.org for more information on multicast DNS."
> 
> Interesting - I never even knew about that.
> 
> > If you know of a way to enable the correct behavior on SLES 
> 9, in lieu 
> > of installing the service pack, I'd definitely be interested.
> 
> Well, I came across the following which is a little rough, but : 
> 
> cp /lib/libresolv-2.3.5.so /lib/libresolv-2.3.5.so.local vi 
> -b /lib/libresolv-2.3.5.so (whilst in vi) :%s/local/lokal/g :wq 
> 
> That'll make the resolver library use mdns for ".lokal" names 
> instead of ".local".  Not the most elegant solution, but it 
> does the job.
> 
> 

Thanks!  I'm not sure what to make of the fix.  As you say, a bit rough.

Regards,
Rich