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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2006-04-29 20:49:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2006-04-29 20:49:19 +0000 |
| commit | ed5f7fe035c45c324852bb6dc94a8389d1064eaa (patch) | |
| tree | 3e67cd6aa6489fe1892a4a97c3dd4cf45d5c3156 /doc | |
| parent | 3e3a14c5e5a1d2bc01aa13d3ec7a9959fa42b433 (diff) | |
add a note why not to use "nslookup" and "host" for testing nss-mdns
git-svn-id: file:///home/lennart/svn/public/nss-mdns/trunk@98 0ee8848e-81ea-0310-a63a-f631d1a40d77
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diff --git a/doc/README.html.in b/doc/README.html.in index 204cffd..6a9ea44 100644 --- a/doc/README.html.in +++ b/doc/README.html.in @@ -184,7 +184,9 @@ use <tt>glibc</tt>'s <tt>getent</tt> tool: 192.168.50.4 foo.local</pre> <p>Replace <i>foo</i> whith a host name that has been registered with -an mDNS responder.</p> +an mDNS responder. (Don't try to use the tools <tt>host</tt> or +<tt>nslookup</tt> for these tests! They bypass the NSS and thus +<tt>nss-mdns</tt> and issue their DNS queries directly.) </p> <p>If you run a firewall, don't forget to allow UDP traffic to the the mDNS multicast address <tt>224.0.0.251</tt> on port 5353.</p> |