Michael Ströder wrote:
Jan Ritzerfeld wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 24. September 2008 schrieb Ludwig Nussel:
Jan Ritzerfeld wrote:
However, the strange part for me is that "avahi-resolve -n KY623B6B.local" works fine. The summary of nss-mdns tells me that it would use a running avahi deamon. I have a avahi deamon running, but nss-mdns tries to resolve the name via mdns by itself. And failes, because of the firewall. try "echo mdns off >> /etc/host.conf". There is a patch in glibc that make glibc itself resolve the .local zone instead of using nss_mdns.
Oh, I assumed that this patch was replaced/obsoleted by nss-mdns. Wouldn't it be a good idea either to add "mdns off" when installing nss-mdns automatically, or to remove the glibc patch?
I'd also prefer if the default configuration wouldn't ship with this LINK_LOCAL and MDNS crap. At least a checkbox in the network configuration to switch it off easily.
Well, file a bug report (enhancement). On 11.1 the glibc mdns patch is disabled AFAIK. The mdns_minimal module relies on avahi so stopping the avahi daemon should be sufficient to disable mdns. OTOH avahi does at least have a cache for positive name lookups so I'd expect less problems due to timeouts. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security+help@opensuse.org