Re: F32, mDNS, and nsswitch.conf

[Kevin Becker]

Well, my printer was autodiscovered and configured via mDNS, so with
the mnds4_minimal entry missing, it was not able to resolve the name. I
could've  gone an manually added it by IP address or a static DNS name
but I liked the simplicity of it working "automagically" and I never
remember the exact syntax I need and whether to set it up an IPP or
HTTP or LPR printer.  

I've had issues with the mdns4_minimal entry in the past when accessing
work resources over VPN, presumably because we have a .local Active
Directory domain at work and mDNS uses .local as well.  IIRC I had to
move the mdns entry further back in the list to make it work, but that
was a few years ago and probably on ubuntu.  I never had to mess with
it in Fedora until now.



On Tue, 2020-05-05 at 19:55 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
>  On Tue, 05 May 2020 19:48:22 -0400
>  Kevin Becker wrote:
>  
>  > It turns out
>  > mdns4_minimal had been removed from host resolution in
>  > nsswitch.conf. 
>  > I restored the nsswitch.conf.bak on both machines and my printer is
>  > back in business.
>  
>  Files like nsswitch.conf seem to be configured by the new
>  authselect stuff, though God knows which profile you need
>  to select to make it work. (Why mdns4_minimal helps, I have
>  no idea, it usually is what screws up my systems and I
>  have to take it out to make things work).
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