base-files: Restore mdns ordering in nsswitch.conf

Placing mdns after dns in the host database resolution can cause
unintuitive failures for users without nss-mdns or mDNSResponder. When
looking up an invalid host, having order "dns mdns" will cause a dns
"notfound" result to fall through to mdns, which will yield
"unavailable" for users without an mdns provider. This causes clients
like ssh to report "Device or resource busy" rather than a more
meaningful message to indicate that the hostname is not valid. Flipping
back to order "mdns dns" will case an "unavailable" mdns result to fall
through to dns, which then returns "notfound" that clients interpret as
expected.

Because both mDNSResponder and nss-mdns offer a generic mdns provider.
The mdns4 and mdns4_minimal providers offered by nss-mdns are subsets of
the generic mdns provider, so there is no value in restoring the
original "mdns mdns4_minimal mdns4" ordering (in fact, this may have
caused failed mdns lookups to be repeated three times). All have been
coalesced into the single mdns provider.

This (partially) reverts commit cc11e17fab.
This commit is contained in:
Andrew J. Hesford 2021-01-23 10:59:34 -05:00
parent 4713aed3b7
commit 2e6e0d6e80
2 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ passwd: files
group: files
shadow: files
hosts: files mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns
hosts: files mdns dns
networks: files
protocols: files

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@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
# Template file for 'base-files'
pkgname=base-files
version=0.141
revision=6
revision=7
bootstrap=yes
depends="xbps-triggers"
short_desc="Void Linux base system files"