On Thu, 01.03.12 15:16, Tomasz Torcz (tomek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 03:11:53PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > Also you should really define 'You' here. Because the issue is that mDNS > > > in Fedora is inserted by default in the hosts database and IIRC before > > > DNS, so it get a chance to always reply before a DNS query is made. This > > > of course makes sense for its uses, why ask the DNS if you know this is > > > a .local name that the DNS should not know about ? > > > > The NSS module is authoritative for .local and .local only. It will not > > respond for host lookups outside this domains, and hence cannot be used > > to muck around with anything outside the mDNS domain .local. You cannot > > override normal unicast host names via multicast. > > Can normal resolver settings be overriden by mDNS and publish-dns-servers= ? Only if avahi-dnsconfd is installed and enabled, but nobody does that, and it is not the default anywhere. In fact I am tempted to simply remove that feature entirely from Avahi, since it's pretty useless and DHCP is a much better option for this. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
