Hi Andrew!

On  3.11.10, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Steve White wrote:
> 
> >For the record, here's the solution.
> >
> >     yum install nss-mdns
> 
> Hmm.
> yum reports "No package nss-mdns available." for both my 32 and 64bit 
> machines. Where does your nss-mdns package come from ?
> 
Right.  It came from
epel

> Your nettest.java sample runs on my 32bit machines without nss-mdns
> which makes me wonder whether that is the solution ?
> 
I'm sure it would run on a 32bit machine.  That isn't where the problem
occurs.

I think the problem occurs on an AMD x86_64 architecture (sorry I should
have repeated that in the summary.)  My specific case is
        AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 244

Cheers!

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