Hi Ludovic!

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Commit 996ed73 adds support to configure libc’s name service switch
> (NSS).  To enable something like nss-mdns (for the resolution of
> ‘.local’ names), one needs two things:
>
>   1. Add this snippet to the ‘operating-system’ declaration:
>
>      (name-service-switch (name-service-switch
>                             (hosts (list %files
>                                          (name-service
>                                            (name "mdns_minimal")
>                                            (reaction (lookup-specification
>                                                       (not-found => return))))
>                                          (name-service
>                                            (name "dns"))
>                                          (name-service
>                                            (name "mdns"))))))
>
>    2. Arrange to have ‘nscd-service’ called with:
>
>         #:name-services (list nss-mdns)
>
> And that works!

Sounds great, except that it doesn't work for me :-(

I've done as you recommended, and "avahi-browse -avr" successfully shows
names of *.local hosts, but if I try to do name lookups on those names,
they always fail.

I've attached my OS configuration.  Any ideas?

      Mark