From ed5f7fe035c45c324852bb6dc94a8389d1064eaa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 20:49:19 +0000
Subject: 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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 doc/README.html.in | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'doc')

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>
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