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How to publish hostnames of Ubuntu machines using Avahi

How do you configure Avahi on Ubuntu to automatically broadcast and discover the DNS info for each Linux server on a local network? I've ran this on my localhost (hostname mylocalhost) and a test server (hostname mytestserver), but all hostname…
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Avahi (zeroconf/bonjour) service in bridged VirtualBox sometimes not found outside host

I have a VirtualBox with Debian 3.2.51 guest (vcube) on Ubuntu 13.10 host (ring) with a bridged network adapter. vcube has an Avahi service configured with a vcube.local name. I can see/ping/access vcube.local by Bonjour name, but cannot see it from…
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Avahi add second hostname

Is it possible to let Avahi announce another hostname for the same machine? I know it is meant to announce 'services', but usual clients like eg. browsers lack Avahi service support and rely on name resolution. Thus I would like to mark certain…
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Nginx -- Can't use mDNS domain name in upstream server

Minimal example Machine A and B, where B uses mDNS with domain name b.local and set ssh service at port 2222. A and B does not turn on firewall. In machine A's nginx.conf: stream { upstream b-ssh { server b.local:2222; } server…
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Googlecast SSDP and MDNS queries on network despite not having any chromecast applications installed in main computer

As title states, Ive detected some MDNS queries from a googlecast address, which is strange since i don't have any googlecast apps or similar installed. Additionally My PC is sending SSDP packets to 239.255.255.250 (subnet?) regarding 'M-Search:…
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mDNS not working between VirtualBox guests

I have two Linux guests (call them db1 and db2, both SL7) running on a Fedora 25 host using VirtualBox. Both guests' network adapters are bridged to the host's wireless card. Both guests have avahi running, and mDNS opened up in their firewalls. …
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mDNS on bridged OpenVPN network

I have openvpn running on a openbsd server that is behind a firewall, so it is a local member of the LAN. The openvpn is a bridge configuration. firewall internal 10.0.10.1 openvpn server 10.0.10.15 vpn clients are assigned 10.0.10.240 -…
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Why are Nix programs not able to resolve mDNS names when native programs are?

My native programs (on Fedora) are able to resolve mDNS / Avahi / zeroconf names, like so: $ ping felonyspork.local -c 1 PING felonyspork.local (192.168.88.169) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.88.169 (192.168.88.169): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64…
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What should a nameserver return in the authority section for queries to hosts on the .local domain?

I see that querying hosts in the local domain foo.local some nameservers (e.g. knot resolver) return an authority section containing things like foo.local. 10800 IN SOA foo.local. nobody.invalid. 1 3600 1200 604800 10800 Others (e.g.…
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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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How to make reverse mDNS through IPv6 on OSX?

I am looking for a way to make reverse mDNS query on OSX over IPv6 only. I am not interested by solution using IPv4. The following works on Linux with dig 9.16.1: dig +short @ff02::fb -p 5353 -x 2001:db8::1 I've installed dig 9.16.7 with homebrew…
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MDNS response “storm” with “localhost_prl: 127.0.0.1”

We are experiencing occasional performance problems in our WIFI. With Wireshark I see a high number (currently 50/s) of MDNS responses for localhost_prl:127.0.0.1. I don't think that this is normal. A MDNS response with 127.0.0.1 seem pointless to…
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mDNS - how to know a device is out of the wifi signal range

I would like to ask a question about mDNS. I am trying to create a Linux process which can discover some services (e.g. _airplay._tcp., _raop._tcp) from the other device when the device joins the Linux AP. I can get the notification through mDNS,…
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Configuring linux to be visible in microsoft DNS domain

I've been trying to have one of our linux box available in the windows domain. The linux box is a ubuntu server without gui or X installed. All manipulations are done from ssh. Linux box: hostname: cactus fqdn: cactus.example.com ip:…
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Apache and ZeroConf

I have a machine running Ubuntu on which I've installed Apache (v2). What I'm trying to do is enable ZeroConf so that the Apache server will broadcast itself over the network and then will be able to be picked up using Bonjour on OS X systems. It…
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