Bug 819178

Summary:	Please add nss-mdns to RHEL 7
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Matěj Cepl <mcepl>
Component:	distribution	Assignee:	Lukáš Nykrýn <lnykryn>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Nobody <nobody>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0	CC:	cschalle, ddumas, john.ellson, lnykryn, lpoetter, lsmid, mclasen, rvokal, vpavlin
Target Milestone:	beta	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Last Closed:	2016-01-28 12:39:13 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	1043027, 1117274

Description Matěj Cepl 2012-05-05 11:28:00 UTC

Description of problem:
Using MDNS is useful not only in the local area networks, but especially with virtual machines where changing IP addresses happen quite easily.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL7 Alpha2

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.ssh <hostname>.local
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
"Could not resolve hostname" error although the SSH service is visible in avahi-browse -a output (or in avahi-discover).

Expected results:
Just getting a connection to ssh server on other machine

Additional info:
I would even argue that this should be a default part of all desktop installations.

Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2012-10-09 06:37:11 UTC

I am not saying that this need to be enabled per default (or even installed per default, although that would be nice for naive users), but it would be nice if the package was available and supported at all.

Comment 8 Václav Pavlín 2014-03-10 14:15:54 UTC

Obviously not solved in rhel7.0 - moving to 7.1

Comment 10 Siddharth Nagar 2014-08-21 15:45:34 UTC

*** Bug 1043027 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Siddharth Nagar 2014-08-21 15:49:14 UTC

We need more details on the use-case that requires this package. Why is it needed? What other packages will be requested to satisfy the requirement? The closest I could find is:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043027#c9

Comment 13 Lukáš Nykrýn 2016-01-28 12:20:15 UTC

I don't think that this worth doing. There is no customer request behind this inclusion and nss-mdns is shipped in epel.

Comment 14 Václav Pavlín 2016-01-28 12:39:13 UTC

I agree, also it doesn't look like there was anybody able to provide use-cases required by Siddharth.

Closing as WONTFIX

Comment 15 Matěj Cepl 2016-01-28 13:22:15 UTC

(In reply to Václav Pavlín from comment #14)
> I agree, also it doesn't look like there was anybody able to provide
> use-cases required by Siddharth.
> 
> Closing as WONTFIX

Oh well. I don't have a BUSINESS case, but we use Avahi .local names all around the house and it is really cool. My suspicion is that nobody asks for it because nobody knows they can have it. Oh well.