Bug 140506 - RESOLV_MDNS: bitte dokumentieren
Summary: RESOLV_MDNS: bitte dokumentieren
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Network (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: 32bit SuSE Linux 10.0
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Adrian Schröter
QA Contact: E-mail List
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Keywords: Readme, release_note
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Reported: 2005-12-21 12:41 UTC by Reinhard Moosauer
Modified: 2005-12-21 20:19 UTC (History)
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Found By: Corporate Interoperability Test
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Description Reinhard Moosauer 2005-12-21 12:41:55 UTC 
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

im Internet kursieren etliche Workarounds zum Thema SuSE > 9.1 und Mulitcast-DNS (MDNS). 
In Microsoft-Netzwerken mit einer ".local"-Domain funktioniert dadurch oft die 
Namenauflösung nicht.

Es wird empfohlen, die resolver-Bibliothek neu zu kompilieren. Das kann es 
aber wohl nicht ganz sein, oder? (z.B. wegen Patches)
Oder man soll .local nicht verwenden. Leider ist das ein Microsoft-Standard.

Jedoch habe ich gerade in dem Patch, der das MDNS aktiviert gesehen, dass man 
das auch per Umgebungsvariable RESOLV_MDNS=off
ausschalten kann.
Ich selbst habe die Zeile in /etc/sysconfig/boot eingebaut. Vielleicht wissen 
Sie noch eine bessere Stelle.

Ich finde, es wäre dringend nötig, dies zu dokumentieren. Am einfachsten  
in /etc/resolv.conf als Kommentar. Zusätzlich natürlich im Changelog.

Vielen Dank im voraus,

Reinhard Moosauer
Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-12-21 12:50:05 UTC 
The prefered language for bugzilla is english. This because
many developers do not speak german.
Comment 2 Reinhard Moosauer 2005-12-21 13:02:07 UTC 
Short english version:

There seem to be some ways to deal with mdns problems in suse 9.1 - 10.0.
This should be documented in some places.
Please document:
- /etc/host.conf: "mdns off" can turn off mdns completely
- /etc/nss_mdns.conf: modify mdns behavior (new since 9.3?)
- export RESOLV_MDNS=off: for testing
Comment 3 Thorsten Kukuk 2005-12-21 20:19:48 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Short english version:
> 
> There seem to be some ways to deal with mdns problems in suse 9.1 - 10.0.
> This should be documented in some places.

It is documented, people only do not read documentation :(

> Please document:
> - /etc/host.conf: "mdns off" can turn off mdns completely

Documented in the corresponding manual page.

> - /etc/nss_mdns.conf: modify mdns behavior (new since 9.3?)

This is not used from us by default, if somebody configures his system to use it it is in his own responsibility.