From 4bca956003ded2af36aac0e46702b21abf6b3110 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 18:31:50 +0000 Subject: update docs git-svn-id: file:///home/lennart/svn/public/nss-mdns/trunk@110 0ee8848e-81ea-0310-a63a-f631d1a40d77 --- doc/README.html.in | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) 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 host or

If you run a firewall, don't forget to allow UDP traffic to the the mDNS multicast address 224.0.0.251 on port 5353.

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Please note: The line above makes nss-mdns +authoritative for the .local 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 .local are +inherently incompatible. Please contact your local admistrator and ask +him to move to a different domain name since .local is to be +used exclusively for Zeroconf technology. Further +information.

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Starting with version 0.5, nss-mdns has a simple configuration file /etc/mdns.allow for enabling name lookups via mDNS in other domains than .local. The file contains -- cgit