https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446017 User pgajdos@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446017#c1 Petr Gajdos changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |paca@sci.fi --- Comment #1 from Petr Gajdos 2008-11-20 02:33:07 MST --- Sorry, exactly when you get this error? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446017 User sbrabec@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446017#c3 Stanislav Brabec changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |pbaudis@novell.com --- Comment #3 from Stanislav Brabec 2008-11-20 06:46:25 MST --- Petr, do you know more about "mdns on/off" in host.conf? In my tests, it seems to not be supported any more. Bug 267222 and bug 329035 indicate the same. In my test: ping npi2a8296.local with "mdns on" in host.conf and mdns4_minimal in /etc/nssswitch.conf: ping not_exists.local .. delay ~5sec /etc/host.conf: line 16: bad command `mdns on' ping: unknown host not_exists.local ping npi2a8296.local PING npi2a8296.local (10.20.0.54) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from hpp2015dn.suse.cz (10.20.0.54): icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=1.82 ms With "mdns off": The same, only bad command is not `mdns off'. Without mdns4_minimal in /etc/nssswitch.conf, both with "mdns on" and "mdns off": ping npi2a8296.local ping: unknown host npi2a8296.local -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446017 User paca@sci.fi added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446017#c5 Petri Asikainen changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|paca@sci.fi | --- Comment #5 from Petri Asikainen 2008-11-22 04:17:48 MST --- Removing NEEDINFO -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446017 User sbrabec@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446017#c7 Stanislav Brabec changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |pgajdos@novell.com Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |coolo@novell.com --- Comment #7 from Stanislav Brabec 2008-11-24 07:11:34 MST --- There is nothing to modify in nsswitch.conf.5. nss-mdns uses nsswitch.conf exactly in documented way. The easiest possible way to turn MDNS off in openSUSE 11.1 and SLE11: Don't install nss-mdns package. It's impossible! GNOME requires libavahi, libavahi requires avahi, avahi requires nss-mdns. I would propose to break this dependency in this point: libavahi should not require avahi. Consider it only as a library. To Coolo: It may have a consequence in dependency tree of selection. Are you OK do do it now? Then we may modify release notes and maybe upgrade process: Turning MDNS off: "mdns off" on /etc/host.conf is no more supported. Please remove nss-mdns packages and its dependencies to get ".local" domain resolved by a standard DNS (as required e. g. by Active Directory). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446017 User pbaudis@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446017#c9 Petr Baudis changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |tgagne@wideopenwest.com --- Comment #9 from Petr Baudis 2008-11-24 07:17:45 MST --- *** Bug 267222 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=267222 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446017 User sbrabec@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446017#c11 Stanislav Brabec changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |locilka@novell.com, ke@novell.com, | |behlert@novell.com, kukuk@novell.com --- Comment #11 from Stanislav Brabec 2008-11-24 08:36:04 MST --- We need to design "MDNS off" upgrade procedure SLE10->SLE11 and probably document turning MDNS off in release notes. Upgrade procedure: If "mdns off" is present in /etc/host.conf, then "don't install package nss-mdns and dependencies" are pretty non-standard hacks. Editing of /etc/nssswitch.conf by users is not so straightforward - see "rpm -q --scripts nss-mdns". Up to now, packages use implication: avahi is present => ".local" is resolved by MDNS. So we also need following changes: - Allow to install nss-mdns without activating of MDNS for ".local" domain. - Programs depending on ".local" resolved by MDNS should check for it. (e. g. avahi-bookmarks) The simplest way would be mdns-on and mdns-off scripts, based on %post and %postun of nss-mdns. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446017 User lnussel@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446017#c13 Ludwig Nussel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |lnussel@novell.com --- Comment #13 from Ludwig Nussel 2008-12-03 04:20:15 MST --- FWIW there is no need to actually remove mdns4_minimal from nsswitch.conf to turn off mdns. That module is supposed to do nothing if the avahi daemon is not running. So chkconfig avahi-daemon off rcavahi-daemon stop should be sufficient to turn off mdns -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446017 User lnussel@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446017#c15 --- Comment #15 from Ludwig Nussel 2008-12-03 06:48:59 MST --- (In reply to comment #14 from Stanislav Brabec)

Confirming that stopping of avahi re-enables DNS queries for .local?

Yes, stopping avahi causes mdns4_minimal to return an error different from NOTFOUND ie nsswitch will try the next module with is dns.

But I guess it is not as flexible as nssswitch.conf: Several packages complain, if avahi is not running. For example use of DNS-SD inside DNS .local domain will not be possible (e. g. use of DAAP inside AD)?

Ah, ok. If you want to keep DNS-SD and only disable name resolving then disabling/uninstalling nss_mdns is the way to go of course.

I am thinking about sysconfig, that will allow smart configuration:

MDNS_LOCAL=(exclusive|preferred|world) default: currently "exclusive", but "preferred" may be an option

MDNS_WORLD=(exclusive|preferred|fallback|none) default=currently "none", but better may be "fallback"

MDNS_IPv4=(none|local|world|both) default: both

MDNS_IPv6=(none|local|world|both) default: none

You'd need SuSEconfig to actually apply such settings then. A YaST module for avahi would be smarter. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.