Multicast DNS & the ".local" domain

Ulrich Drepper drepper at redhat.com
Fri Nov 12 05:36:45 UTC 2004


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Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> Short question: Does Fedora Core 3 support multicast DNS name resolution
> for the ".local" domain?

There is no mDNS support in the resolver.  Certain other distributors
implemented a terribly ugly hack which is beyond wrong.  We are not
adding that just to have another check on a list of some people.  If it
is found that mDNS is really useful (which I still am not convinced of)
then we can implement it correctly at some point.

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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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