[Bug 327362] Re: Some ISPs have .local domain which disables avahi-daemon

[Thomas Hood]

The original issue was, roughly, that Avahi daemon disables itself when
an ISP has a .local TLD. I take it that this is not a bug but a feature.
So perhaps this report should be marked wontfix?

A desire was also expressed that the Avahi daemon handle this situation
better, as described for example in my previous comment (#60). I have
filed a new bug report (bug #1167352) requesting that the improved
behavior be implemented.

Another alleged issue is that the current test for .local has false
positives: Exterminans claimed this in comment #46. However, his
suggested alternative for line 58 looks the same to me as the original
line 58 so I don't know what he means. Exterminans: Can you please open
a *new* bug report with a fuller explanation of this false-positive bug?

The current test for .local also suffers from false negatives. That is
bug #80900.

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Title:
  Some ISPs have .local domain which disables avahi-daemon

Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “avahi” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “avahi” source package in Karmic:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: avahi-daemon

  After a fresh install of Jaunty Alpha 3 avahi did not work and as a
  result of that - not Bonjour in Pidgin, and some network discovery
  stuff.

  I have been looking for a solution, but still - after the fresh
  install, when I used Intrepid, it worked fine.

  During boot I see some error with avahi-daemon (do quick to actually read), and I think that it is the same thing as I get when trying to startup avahi-damon:
  daniel at daniel-laptop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start
   * Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon avahi-daemon                                                                                
   * avahi-daemon disabled because there is a unicast .local domain

  And after login there is a notify regarding the same matter.

  This same things is confirmed on my finances netbook. 
  We used the Alternative Jaunty CD for install (due to that the install crashed when the installing user already existed in /home, on the desktop CD)

  Awesome work - keep it up! ;)

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