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

[Samuel Greenfeld]

Are you sure a change is required?

I just tried connecting using a randomly-grabbed 12.1.0 machine to a
network-connected printer (http://hp-model_id.local/) via HTTP and it
worked fine.


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Braddock <braddock at braddock.com> wrote:

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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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