On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:46:50 -0500 Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 06:50:46PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:08:45 -0500 > > Tom Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Again, everything looks and works normally excecpt for the > > > strange IP address. Just hoping someone can explain or provide a > > > link to some information - thanks...(maybe this is related to > > > IPv6 ?) > > > > These addresses are usually assigned by the zeroconf package. You > > can (should) purge that. > > > > Regards, > Hi Andrei, > it seems enough people do an install and have this problem that the > answer has become know to the debian-user list. Now I know very little > about zeroconf but it seems to me that it would be better to _not_ > have it installed and allow those folks who need it to install it > then to have newbies not have proper networking when they finish an > install. Opinions? > cheers, > Kev avahi-daemon recommends libnss-mdns libnss-mdns recommends zeroconf The link is pretty weak, but it still gets installed on a lot of systems, because aptitude installs recommends by default. Maybe it (zeroconf) should be installed disabled? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
