[avahi] Apple computers and name resolution

[MDonoughe]

I was using both: mdns6 mdns4.
It only had this problem when dealing with Apple software.

On Oct 4, 2005, at 10:31 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:

> On Tue, 04.10.05 18:16, MDonoughe (mdonoughe at bot24.hn.org) wrote:
>
>
>> OK. I got it now. STrace revealed that nss-mdns couldn't open the
>> socket /usr/var/run/avahi-daemon/socket. That was because there isn't
>> supposed to be a usr there. After linking /var to /usr/var,
>> everything works fine. The problem was in how nss-mdns handled IPv6
>> addresses with it's own resolver code.
>>
>
> Which module are you using? libnss_mdns4? libnss_mdns6? libnss_mdns?
>
> I guess you passed --prefix=/usr to nss-mdns's configure script?
> nss-mdns will try to connect to
> $(localstatedir)/run/avahi-daemon/socket which depends on
> $(localstatedir) which in turn depends on $(prefix), which is set to
> "/" by default in configure.ac. If you overwrite it, it will not point
> to the right thing.
>
> Somehow nss-mdns' internal lookup routines (which are used when no
> avahi-daemon is found running) failed.  I wonder why they did
> that. Perhaps because you used the wrong module of those listed
> above. I will investigate this further.
>
> Lennart
>
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MDonoughe
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