[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#406272: dot local woes

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 02:51:17PM +0100, Bengt Walerud wrote:
> Hi
> 
>  
> 
> Struggling with the so called dot local problem. Have a machine on a
> small network running Debian Etch RC. Everything works fine except that
> it's impossible to get avahi-daemon running. The startup script stops
> with the error message regarding a "unicast domain .local". The domain
> used to be .local but I've changed it to .int without success. 

If you run ``host -t soa local.'' does give a result (other then not found/has
no etc)? If so then your unicast dns servers still serves a .local domain and
avahi is correctly not starting.

If that's not the case then avahi should be able to start. Now the check is
only done when the resolver information could potentially change, not each time
you try to start avahi. Which might be the issue your seeing, just doing
an ifdown/ifup of your interfaces should correct that :)

  Sjoerd
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