No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns! (I did. Now what?)

[paul beard]

Pro tip: it's actually called nss_mdns.

Anyway, I have it and avahi installed.

avahi-0.6.31

Name           : avahi

Version        : 0.6.31

Installed on   : Fri Jun  6 21:02:08 PDT 2014

Origin         : net/avahi

Architecture   : freebsd:8:x86:32

Prefix         : /usr/local

Categories     : net dns

Maintainer     : gnome at FreeBSD.org

WWW            : http://www.avahi.org/

Comment        : "meta-port" for the Avahi service discovery suite

nss_mdns-0.10_2

Name           : nss_mdns

Version        : 0.10_2

Installed on   : Sat Jun  7 14:23:31 PDT 2014

Origin         : dns/nss_mdns

Architecture   : freebsd:8:x86:32

Prefix         : /usr/local

Categories     : ipv6 dns

Maintainer     : ashish at FreeBSD.org

WWW            : UNKNOWN

Comment        : NSS module implementing multicast DNS name resolution

Yet I see these error messages:
Jun  7 14:30:13 shuttle avahi-daemon[69314]: WARNING: No NSS support
for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns!

Here's how I repro them:

date; service avahi-daemon restart; sleep 5; tail -20
/var/log/messages | grep avahi

Sat Jun  7 14:30:13 PDT 2014

Stopping avahi-daemon.

Starting avahi-daemon.
Jun  7 14:29:15 shuttle kernel: <118>Jun  7 14:29:14 shuttle
avahi-daemon[69156]: Host name conflict for "secundus.local", not
established.
Jun  7 14:30:13 shuttle avahi-daemon[69314]: WARNING: No NSS support
for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns!
Jun  7 14:30:14 shuttle avahi-daemon[69314]: Static host name ivoire6:
avahi_server_add_address failure: Invalid host name
Jun  7 14:30:14 shuttle avahi-daemon[69314]: Host name conflict for
"secundus.local", not established.
Jun  7 14:30:14 shuttle kernel: <118>Jun  7 14:30:14 shuttle
avahi-daemon[69314]: Static host name ivoire6:
avahi_server_add_address failure: Invalid host name
Jun  7 14:30:14 shuttle kernel: <118>Jun  7 14:30:14 shuttle
avahi-daemon[69314]: Host name conflict for "secundus.local", not
established.
Jun  7 14:30:14 shuttle avahi-daemon[69314]: Host name conflict for
"primus.local", not established.
Jun  7 14:30:15 shuttle avahi-daemon[69314]: Static host name
"shuttle6.local" successfully established.
Jun  7 14:30:15 shuttle avahi-daemon[69314]: Static host name
"shuttle.local" successfully established.
Jun  7 14:30:15 shuttle avahi-daemon[69314]: Static host name
"kraken.local" successfully established.
Jun  7 14:30:15 shuttle avahi-daemon[69314]: Static host name
"argent.local" successfully established.
Jun  7 14:30:15 shuttle avahi-daemon[69314]: Static host name
"toggle.local" successfully established.
Jun  7 14:30:15 shuttle avahi-daemon[69314]: Static host name
"tivo.local" successfully established.
Jun  7 14:30:15 shuttle avahi-daemon[69314]: Static host name
"gray.local" successfully established.
Jun  7 14:30:15 shuttle avahi-daemon[69314]: Static host name
"ivoire.thistledew.org" successfully established.
Jun  7 14:30:15 shuttle avahi-daemon[69314]: Static host name
"elefant.local" successfully established.
Jun  7 14:30:15 shuttle avahi-daemon[69314]: Static host name
"fourcore.local" successfully established.
Jun  7 14:30:15 shuttle avahi-daemon[69314]: Static host name
"omphalos.local" successfully established.
Jun  7 14:30:15 shuttle avahi-daemon[69314]: Static host name
"localhost.local" successfully established.
Jun  7 14:30:15 shuttle kernel: <118>Jun  7 14:30:14 shuttle
avahi-daemon[69314]: Host name conflict for "primus.local", not
established.





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