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Re: New ZeroConf Spec

Subject: Re: New ZeroConf Spec
From: "Dan Kegel"
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 04:28:08 -0700
On 7/27/06, Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On do, 2006-07-27 at 12:18 +0100, Dick Davies wrote:
>   2. edit nsswitch.conf to explicitly enable mdns for the 'hosts'
> database.

I noticed that recent base-files packages already enable mdns.

uh-oh.  My horror level is back to full-on.
- Dan

p.s. Yes, I should have left ssh out of the list of apps that trust
hostnames.  (It's a  rule in technical flamefests that if you have
any false statement in a post, readers will discount the rest of the post.
C'est la vie.)

Also, cups autodiscovery seems to be off in ubuntu:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28480
perhaps that was for security reasons?

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