[Regression] Avahi-daemon nss-mdns hostname resolution is deactivated since 16.10 resulting in "Unable to locate printer"

[theghost]

Since 16.10 Avahi-daemon nss-mdns hostname resolution for network printer is deactivated.
This causes that print jobs against these printers fail with the error "Unable to locate printer".

As a reminder, before 16.10, it hostname resolution worked perfectly.

As a workaround change the existing config entry in "/etc/nsswitch.conf" from:
hosts: files resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns

to:
hosts: files mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns myhostname

as described here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Avahi#Hostname_resolution

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: avahi-daemon 0.6.32-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-26.28-generic 4.8.0
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Oct 20 21:31:12 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-16 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: avahi
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[russell hedger (yumpottedmeat)]

I can confirm this bug exists in a fresh install of Kubuntu 16.10 and that the workaround is successful.