[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#627357: gnome-desktop-environment: I would like to remove avahi-daemon because mdns slows down PTR lookup

[andreimpopescu at gmail.com]

Control: reassign -1 libnss-mdns

On Lu, 01 oct 12, 11:20:43, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> On 10/01/2012 02:26:25 AM, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 May 2011 at 16:11:07 -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> > > gnome-desktop-environment depends on gnome-user-share which,
> > > eventually, depends on avahi-daemon.  MDNS greatly slows down
> > reverse
> > > dns (PTR) lookups
> > 
> > You should be able to address this without changes to the metapackage
> > by removing libnss-mdns, which is recommended by avahi-daemon, but
> > leaving avahi-daemon installed and running. Result: Avahi continues
> > to work if applications like gnome-user-share explicitly use it
> > (via libavahi-* or direct use of its D-Bus API), but you can no 
> > longer
> > resolve through Avahi via the glibc name service switch API (so
> > "ping foo.local" will no longer work).
> > 
> > Removing mdns from nsswitch.conf but leaving mdns4_minimal might also
> > be worth considering for your situation: mdns4_minimal will only
> > resolve hostnames that match *.local or 169.254.*.*, and only with
> > IPv4.
> 
> Thanks for the response.
> 
> Perhaps a note in README.Debian is called for?

The gnome-desktop-environment meta-package doesn't exist anymore, so 
this bug is currently not assigned to any package.

If my understanding is correct your suggestion for a note in 
README.Debian applies to libnss-mdns, so I'm reassigning accordingly.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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