Do you still experience this on current Feisty? nss-mdns 0.9 fixes a lot of bugs.
** Changed in: nss-mdns (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info -- gnome-nettool window does not repaint correctly when avahi hostname is used. https://launchpad.net/bugs/66845 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs