[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#644912: Confirming

[Loïc Minier]

tag 644912 + confirmed
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I confirm the symptoms mentioned in this bug report; after changing my
nsswitch.conf from:
hosts:          files mdns_minimal4 [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
to:
hosts:          files mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns

I could witness IPv6 addresses returned by "getent hosts foo.local" on
various hosts on my network.  One of the arguments in the past was that
IPv6 was uncommon on local networks but at least iOS 6.1, MacOS X 10.6.8
and Windows 8 respond with IPv6 link-local addresses to .local mDNS
queries.  However a couple of devices from my ISP (router and TV STB)
and a HP C5190 printer didn't, which resulted in ~5 seconds timeouts
when connecting to them which I hadn't with the IPv4-only setup.

This patch shouldn't definitely be (tested, reviewed and) included to
fix handling of IPv6 .local addresses, but it's not clear the default
should be changed from IPv4-only lookups to IPv4 + IPv6 lookups.

    Cheers,
-- 
Loïc Minier