Mark McLoughlin <markmc <at> redhat.com> writes:
Hi Ulrich, It seems like the nss-mdns author has made some progress on this. The latest version allows queries to be directed through Avahi's mDNS responder (the responder in FC5), meaning responses are cached directly etc.
I have posted the latest version of the nss_mdns package in: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172869
The nss_mdns module now only works if avahi is present and running (it will not do any lookups by itself).
My colleague Ezio has also written a more solid script to enable/disable the mdns bits in /etc/nsswitch.conf. It might be useful using some config option from /etc/sysconfig/network to know whether to enable it or not.
Hopefully we can get this in Fedora Core itself, rather than the Extras.
-- Bastien Nocera hadess@hadess.net