Re: New Etch install - IP address question
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:46:50 -0500
Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net> 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 <tpfeife1@optonline.net> 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
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