On Tuesday 21 February 2006 17:59, Francesco Riosa wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Since my recent upgrade of glibc from glibc-2.3.6-r2 (Jan 18) to > > glibc-2.3.6-r3 (Feb 21) I'm getting this error when starting emacs and > > doing various other things: > > > > etc/host.conf: line 24: bad command `mdns off' > > > > according to equery /etc/host.conf belongs to glibc. I've rebooted, but > > the behaviour is still there. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > thanks, > > I could found anything related to this in the ChangeLog, please report a > bug (check for dupe before) Hi, Don't know if this will help, but here'e the enotice from my glibc-2.3.6-r3: ...BEGIN... info:Building GLIBC with NPTL... info:Installing GLIBC default with NPTL ... info:Installing info pages... info:userlocales not enabled, installing -ALL- locales... info:Installing man pages... info:Gentoo's glibc now disables multicast dns by default in our info:example host.conf. To re-enable this functionality, simply info:remove the line that disables it (mdns off). ...END... HTH.Rumen