From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FBalw-00064t-8d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:53:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1LGqpuZ010012; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:52:51 GMT Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net (vms046pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.46]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1LGmge3013670 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:48:43 GMT Received: from mail.joat.com ([71.114.144.163]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0IV100FCUQP49Z36@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:48:41 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (cornholio.joat.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.joat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BD2B14CD3 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:48:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.joat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.joat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 01529-06 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:48:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (dnebing.tbbgl.com [141.151.196.13]) by mail.joat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:48:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:47:14 -0500 From: Dave Nebinger Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] etc/host.conf: line 24: bad command `mdns off' In-reply-to: <43FB3927.802@pnpitalia.it> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <43FB4412.3060804@joat.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at joat.com References: <1140483471.10641.4.camel@orpheus> <43FB1ABE.4040502@joat.com> <43FB3927.802@pnpitalia.it> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0 X-Archives-Salt: 0108fa73-4fb4-461a-9a63-9cbae61efd17 X-Archives-Hash: c2f9a9d4cbbc6fd15c94700aa3aad42d 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? Sure it is not the answer for someone running their own DNS (which I do) and has their .local zone defined (as I do), and in this case it might actually be a bug (which is probable since that version of glibc is still masked). But without the OP specifying that he *was* running his own DNS and *had* his .local zone set up and *was known* to be able to handle a base system running from masked glibc, you can't assume that he's even slightly qualified to diagnose and resolve this issue. So the simple answer of removing the line is probably the right one for him. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list