Re: [gentoo-user] etc/host.conf: line 24: bad command `mdns off'

[Rumen Yotov <rumen@qrypto.org>]

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Hi,
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 18:47, Dave Nebinger wrote:
> Francesco Riosa wrote:
> >> How about removing line 24?  Or couldn't you think of that on your own?
> >
> > and you could not think that this kind of answer is _wrong_ under every
> > corner you could look at it ?
>
> How about because that is set from the default installation and that 95%
> of the folks on this list couldn't even tell you what it is for and when
> it is appropriate to change the setting?
>
> How about the high probability that this person is not running their own
> DNS and is using /etc/hosts for local name resolution?
>
> Or how about the fact that glibc 2.3.6-r3 (as 2.3.6 in general) is
> masked in Portage indicating that you should expect problems if you're
> going to build your box on an unstable version of glibc?
>
Please don't scare me, it's in testing (not masked). At least 2.3.6-r2|3.
->*2.3.6 *2.3.6-r1 ~2.3.6-r2 ~2.3.6-r3
...SKIP...
Rumen

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