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Bonjour, also known as zero-configuration networking, enables automatic discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks using industry standard IP protocols.

Bonjour, also known as zero-configuration networking, enables automatic discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks using industry standard IP protocols.

Official page: http://www.apple.com/support/bonjour/

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What is Bonjour Linux IPTables Firewall Ports?

I'm trying to configure my iptables in order to allow Pidgin to use Bonjour protocol, now according to: Bonjour for Windows doesn't work due to firewall settings, I have to allow Multicast DNS / (5353/udp). [alexus@wcmisdlin02 ~]$ cat…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 not properly forwarding dns-sd records. Why?

I've recently been trying to set up unicast DNS-SD to make printing easier for our Mac users, but I've hit an odd snag. We use two Windows Server 2008 R2 machines as the DNS servers between end-users and the Internet, but for some reason they return…
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How to automatically announce Linux server resources to clients with arbitrary OSes?

I have a Linux server that needs to offer some services to an intranet. There will often be users that are not too familiar with using their laptops in a network environment, and so I'd like to announce the services they can use in an intuitive way.…
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git won't resolve my avahi hostname

I'm trying to do git remotes on my local network using avahi: git clone ssh://josh@west.local:test.git Git is complaining: ssh: Could not resolve hostname west.local:: Name or service not known Yet I can ssh to west.local without problems. And…
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How can I unregister a service with dns-sd?

I am trying to use "dns-sd" command line tool on my Windows 7 machine. I can already do something. For example I can register a service using "dns-sd -R ...". I also can browser (see) registered services using "dns-sd -B ...". What I still miss, is…
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Configure Bonjour for a custom vhost on Apache on OS X

Bonjour is a lovely technology. I would like all my custom vhosts on my mac (Snow Leopard) to broadcast via bonjour. What is the best way to do this, without having to enable for every vhost separately?
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Cannot load reverse lookup zones containing "rich-text" PTR records

Summary I am attempting to set up Wide-Area Bonjour (aka DNS-SD) using ISC Bind 9.9.5, but cannot load reverse lookup zones providing discovery of "rich-text" service domains. Background According to Discovery of Browsing and Registration Domains…
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Avahi and Zeroconf Servers found by every application, but not by Safari

I have two servers in my home network: The first one is an Arm based linux computer running on a custom Debian 3.4.43 kernel The second one is an Arduino with an ethernet shield. I installed avahi and apache2 on the linux server, installed apache…
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Wake on Demand for Apache server in OS X 10.8

Mac OS X Mountain Lion does not have a Web Sharing box in the Sharing system prefs menu. It is thoroughly discussed on the web that the Apache server is available, and that it can be turned on manually in the command line, or by using a convenient…
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ZeroConf (Bonjour/Avahi): Macs do not see Linux systems and vice versa

In my home network I have several OS X boxes and several Ubuntu boxes. Each Ubuntu box sees other boxes via ZeroConf. I can "ssh ubuntu1.local" and "ping ubuntu1.local" from "ubuntu2.local", but both fail to lookup OSX boxes. And the other way…
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Reason for perpetual dynamic DNS updates?

I'm using dynamic DNS (the "adult" version from RFC 2136, not à la DynDNS), and for a while now I've been seeing my laptops with MacOS 10.6.x churning out updates about every 10 seconds. And seemingly redundant updates at that, as the IP is more or…
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SSH to an ubuntu machine using avahi

I have an ubuntu box that I connect to using avahi. Connecting to that box works fine for all services (I regularly use AFP, SSH and SMB on it) but I've noticed that whenever I connect to it from a mac using SSH (and using the ".local" dns name…
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How do I register a service with Bonjour?

I am trying to start to use Bonjour. Here I found a manual how to register a service with Bonjour. The following is written there: The network services architecture in Bonjour includes an easy-to-use mechanism for publishing, discovering, and…
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What could cause my OS X machine's mdns ip address to be wrong?

I have an Ubuntu 9.04 box and a OS X 10.5 box. They are both on the same subnet (192.168.10.0/24). I can see ubuntu.local and osx.local from the OS X machine, but I can only see ubuntu.local from the Ubuntu machine. When I ping them ubuntu.local…
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Different Avahi/ZeroConf Services for different VLANs

I couldn't find any reference in the man page for Avahi so here is my question: Is there a possiblity to configure one service (printer) for only one VLAN and another service (printer) for another VLAN with a single Avahi Daemon? I don't want to run…
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