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

[Mekk]

As I found this bug accidentally after years, just small remark:

a) The firm I work for keeps naming hosts in internal network
«name».ourfirm.local. Those addresses are omnipresent (from network
config to myriads of development/test/staging/whatever environments and
config files), so advice to abandon them is unlikely to be considered.
Ah, and we started our naming convention in 1997 or so. Zeroconf was
born in 2002 on Mac, appeared on Linuxes around 2007-2010, and was RFCed
in 2013 :-P

b) Still, this simply means that our „linux installation checklist” contains request to edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and remove
     mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return]


Having said that, I still have no clue why avahi couldn't restrict itself to non-dns-resolvable addresses and leave those resolvable to DNS.

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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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