Comment 63 for bug 24828

Thomas Butter wrote:
>> Link local addresses aren't limited to just "link diagnostics", also
>> when using avahi/zeroconf, you may well have dns for just the local link.
>>
>
> I am no avahi expert so I could be wrong. I think avahi/zeroconf only
> uses the dns protocol, but won't use the glibc name resolution functions
> with link local addresses. So this use case won't affect the Vista/OS X
> like name resolution.
>
Well, I am ;)

I was talking about situations where you could be using a link local IP,
that is in DNS, where you may not have a default route.

Case in point was Avahi which can make use of link local IPs which you
can then get at with DNS using the libnss-mdns, having said that given
the interface specification stuff, they are relatively useless unless
your using the Avahi API directly which allows you to get the interface
along with the name.

Cheers,
Trent

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