[avahi] How Avahi dnsconfd works ?

[Amirouche Boubekki]

Héllo,

2011/6/27 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>

> On Fri, 24.06.11 22:24, Amirouche Boubekki (amirouche.boubekki at gmail.com)
> wrote:
>
> > Héllo,
> >
> > I see that avahi-dnsconfd achieve to handle dns request from the browser
> > without being listed in /etc/resolv.conf. I think that it's part of the
> dns
> > resolution spec to check whether or not localhost can answer the query
> > first.
> >
> > The problem is that, it looks like, there's nobody on port 53. So how
> does
> > avahi catch dns lookups and answer it ?
>
> avahi-dnsconfd is simply a daemon which allows local configuration of
> DNS servers with nameserver addresses that are supplied via special mDNS
> RRs. It has very little sensible use actually. The reason I implemented
> it was mostly to complete the spec. Distributions should not instal this
> daemon by default.
>
> nss-mdns is responsible for resolving .local names. It is enabled via
> /etc/nsswitch.conf, and works independently of classic unicast DNS.
>

Thanks a lot.


Regards,

Amirouche

> Lennart
>
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