[Cialug] slow route

Kevin C. Smith kevin at linuxsmith.com
Tue Aug 28 13:35:45 CDT 2007


Multicast DNS name resolution

Works with Avahi in Ubuntu, otherwise known as zeroconf, roundavous, and
possible other names I'm not aware of.

>
> What is mdns?
>
> Dan
>
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:05:32 -0500, "Matthew Nuzum" <newz at bearfruit.org>
> wrote:
>> Some versions of mdns have problems... Had this with Feisty beta...
>> try removing it temporarily to see if that solves it. If so, post back
>> and we can find the corrected setting.
>>
>> On 8/27/07, Kevin C. Smith <kevin at linuxsmith.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 15:29 -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
>>> >> Well, here's the odd part. Anything outside works fine, inside is
>> slow.
>>> >> Those inside are listed in my /etc/hosts files, so no DNS is needed.
>>> >> Thus, my confusion.
>>> >>
>>> >> # route
>>> >> takes 20 seconds to complete
>>> >> # route -n
>>> >> is instant
>>> >
>>> > In /etc/nsswitch.conf wht
>>> >
>>> > What does "grep ^hosts: /etc/nsswitch.conf" say?  Is it:
>>> >
>>> > hosts:      files dns
>>> >
>>> > or is it:
>>> >
>>> > hosts:      dns files
>>> >
>>> > or is it something completely different?
>>> >
>>> > Jeff
>>>
>>> hosts:          files dns mdns
>>>
>>> Kevin C. Smith
>>>
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