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From: Rumen Yotov <rumen@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] etc/host.conf: line 24: bad command `mdns off'
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:38:42
Message-Id: 200602211932.19481.rumen@qrypto.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] etc/host.conf: line 24: bad command `mdns off' by Dave Nebinger
1 Hi,
2 On Tuesday 21 February 2006 18:47, Dave Nebinger wrote:
3 > Francesco Riosa wrote:
4 > >> How about removing line 24? Or couldn't you think of that on your own?
5 > >
6 > > and you could not think that this kind of answer is _wrong_ under every
7 > > corner you could look at it ?
8 >
9 > How about because that is set from the default installation and that 95%
10 > of the folks on this list couldn't even tell you what it is for and when
11 > it is appropriate to change the setting?
12 >
13 > How about the high probability that this person is not running their own
14 > DNS and is using /etc/hosts for local name resolution?
15 >
16 > Or how about the fact that glibc 2.3.6-r3 (as 2.3.6 in general) is
17 > masked in Portage indicating that you should expect problems if you're
18 > going to build your box on an unstable version of glibc?
19 >
20 Please don't scare me, it's in testing (not masked). At least 2.3.6-r2|3.
21 ->*2.3.6 *2.3.6-r1 ~2.3.6-r2 ~2.3.6-r3
22 ...SKIP...
23 Rumen

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Re: [gentoo-user] etc/host.conf: line 24: bad command `mdns off' Dave Nebinger <dnebinger@××××.com>