[ILUG] IPv6 link-local and avahi/mdns

[Andrew McCarthy]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:07:09PM +0000, Colm Buckley wrote:
> Not tried this myself, but it looks like your DNS resolver isn't correctly
> looking to mDNS to resolve the .local domain.  What's in your resolv.conf?

mdns is specified in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
	hosts:          files mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns

>From this example:
	ssh -6 example.local
		ssh: connect to host example.local port 22: Invalid argument
it looks like ssh is getting the IPv6 address, but not the interface to
use. Trying "ping6" to a link-local address without specifying an
interface and I see the same "Invalid argument" message.

Thanks,

Andrew