Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.




/Per Jessen, Zürich