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- Packages automagically modifies /etc/nsswitch.conf
- --------------------------------------------------
-
- Previously the base-files package shipped /etc/nsswitch.conf and specified:
-
- hosts: files dns mdns
-
- However, due to bug#351990, this is no longer the case. /etc/nsswitch.conf
- is now generated post-installation. Upon installation of nss-mdns, if the
- strings 'mdns', 'mdns_minimal', 'mdns4', 'mdns4_minimal', 'mdns6' or
- 'mdns6_minimal' appear on the hosts line, your /etc/nsswitch.conf file
- will not be updated, otherwise it will updated to match the upstream
- recommended configuration which usually looks like:
-
- hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
-
-
- Sites with a .local DNS zone
- ----------------------------
-
- Making nss-mdns authoritative for .local breaks resolution on networks
- where .local is a real domain name. To workaround this, avahi-daemon
- should be restarted when the DNS settings change (for example via
- resolvconf and dhclient hooks) and disable itself when a SOA for the
- .local zone is found. This is not currently implemented at the time of
- writing, but should soon be.
-
- See also this excellent summary on the upstream website:
- <http://avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAndUnicastDotLocal>
-
-