[IIAB] Request for mDNS name resolution from Internet-in-a-Box project

[Braddock]

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On 07/31/2013 03:17 PM, Paul Fox wrote:
> Fedora and most Linux distros (not to mention Macs) support mDNS
> out of the box, yet for some reason it is turned off in OLPC OS.
> I believe all that is required is the addition of the nss-mdns
> package to the OLPC OS build.
> 
>> if it's that simple, can your deployments simply do that
>> installation with yum?  or is there something else missing,
>> either from the laptop, or from my understanding?

That would require installing nss-mdns on each and every XO laptop in
each school, and doing it again every time an XO was upgraded.  Not
feasible.  It needs to be done upstream.

- -braddock
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