[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#769434: base: LLMNR support would be nice

[David Lee Lambert]

Package: base
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream ipv6

Dear Maintainer,

I've sometimes been able to get Windows devices to interoperate with Debian devices knowing
each other by thir hostnames on the local link using NetBIOS or Avahi/Bonjour. However,
on some Windows 7 devices, even after adding several permissive rules to the firewall
and installing Bonjour, some client software is not able to resolve ".LOCAL" names.
Examination with Wireshark suggests Windows is sending out LLMNR requests.  It would
be nice for interoperabilty if Debian hosts could by default respond to LLMNR for their 
own hostname.

Upstream 'avahi' has an old ticket for such a possible feature...

http://avahi.org/ticket/125

There's also an independent SourceForge project 'xllmnrd' to provide LLMNR responder
by itself...

https://sourceforge.net/projects/xllmnrd/

(Note also yet another SourceForge project 'zcnr' "LLMNR implentation for Linux" which
has released no code)

LLMNR is defined in RFC 4795.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.7
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash