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diff --git a/doc/README.html.in b/doc/README.html.in index 01adfa2..2bfc24f 100644 --- a/doc/README.html.in +++ b/doc/README.html.in @@ -220,6 +220,16 @@ an mDNS responder. (Don't try to use the tools <tt>host</tt> or <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> +<p><b>Please note:</b> The line above makes <tt>nss-mdns</tt> +authoritative for the <tt>.local</tt> domain. If you have a unicast +DNS domain with the same name you will no longer be able to resolve +hosts from it. mDNS and a unicast DNS domain named <tt>.local</tt> are +inherently incompatible. Please contact your local admistrator and ask +him to move to a different domain name since <tt>.local</tt> is to be +used exclusively for Zeroconf technology. <a +href="http://avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAndUnicastDotLocal">Further +information</a>.</p> + <p>Starting with version 0.5, <tt>nss-mdns</tt> has a simple configuration file <tt>/etc/mdns.allow</tt> for enabling name lookups via mDNS in other domains than <tt>.local</tt>. The file contains |