Re: network Q.: host name gets ".local" added after sometime

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 02:17:32PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
>> Osamu Aoki wrote:
>>> See:
>>> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_the_hostname_resolution
>> Spot on! Nice.
> ... 
>> So I supposed I just need to recorder the 'hosts' line to:
>> hosts:          files dns mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] mdns4
>>
>> I hope I am on the right track.
> 
> I did not analyse your problem much in detail.  But reading docs around
> /usr/share/doc/libnss-mdns is the next step.
> 
>> BTW, I wonder what is the purpose of the default order of this line to
>> being with? Why is mdns4_minimal before dns?
> 
> Read /usr/share/doc/libnss-mdns
> 
> 

I read the Debian and the files quickly. I am not very familiar with
mdsn so I didn't understand everything. Only that the order is fixed
during package installation and is not updated later. I have changed the
order with dns in the second place.

Thanks for the pointers.
Regards.




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