Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I see mdns there and immediately have an immune reaction due to many > > problems with it before. As you have already determined it is the > > source of your current 5 second timeout. I recommend purging > > libnss-mdns from your system. That will solve your problem. > > Why is it installed by default? Instead of thinking that is a rhetorical question I will answer as seriously as possible. I can only think because at 5 seconds of delay most people don't realize that it is causing that delay. They just attribute the delay to "stuff" and don't look to see why. If they are doing one ssh login it is not so noticeable. If you are doing 100 ssh commands one after the other than that is many minutes being stalled and extremely noticeable and bad. For those that don't notice the delay then adding a potential feature by default seems attractive so why not? The why not is because everything has a cost and creeping featurism is a very real and insidious problem. Also if you look at the author of avahi you will have another clue as to why it is installed by default. Bob
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