[Touch-packages] [Bug 80900] Re: Avahi daemon prevents resolution of FQDNs ending in ".local" due to false negatives in the detection of ".local" networks

I guess I am wrong about the "upstream security hole" thing. But I don't know why you would use mDNS for serious security anyway. mdns_minimal already causes a 4-second fallthrough (if AVAHI is disabled at least). So Lennart is ranting and screaming only about the [NOTFOUND=return] line? As if h

[Touch-packages] [Bug 80900] Re: Avahi daemon prevents resolution of FQDNs ending in ".local" due to false negatives in the detection of ".local" networks

Apple, whose OS X Yosemite (10.10) will not even resolve DNS when internet is down ("private networks don't exist"), simply chose the wrong name for something that is basically only used by machines. Their ".local" is not meant for manual use. They could just as easily have called it ".mdns" or s

[Touch-packages] [Bug 845914] Re: Failsafe boot delay causes a real delay on every boot

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 847782 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/847782 Introducing any kind of script to /etc/network/if-up.d/ that exits with error for eth0 (or in any case static interfaces?) will cause this script to fail, ie. introduce the 120 sec boot delay. I think it is r