Comment 4 for bug 369008

Actually I'm a bit surprised to hear that the patch mentioned in 374674 actually fixes this bug. The problem with nss-mdns for .local addresses is that even when it finds the address (via avahi) which works just fine, getaddrinfo returns the IPV6 address but always leaves scope_id empty. Linux doesn't like you trying to talk to IPV6 Link-local (fe80::) address without a valid scope_id which makes sense because the same fe80:: address can be used on multiple links.

On the nss internal side only _nss_gethostbyname4_r has a place to return the scope id. I've written a patch to the nss-mdns.c code and submitted it to the debian bug tracking this problem but after a week I've had no response. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=644912 If you're interested in trying out my fix you could 'apt-get source nss-mdns' and then apply my patch and see how it works for you? I've had it in place on my ubuntu machine for a couple weeks now and everything is working smoothly. FYI I also sent the patch upstream to the nss-mdns author but got no response yet there either :-(