I have two machines, one is Antergos (Arch/Linux) and the other one is Windows 10 connected to each other using LAN. The Antergos PC has a hostname of niffler and the Windows PC has a hostname of phoenix. The IP addresses to both the PCs are assigned by my router and they don't change too often. But still I want to use these PCs using their hostnames instead of their IPs. So I installed avahi and nss-mdns on niffler from the official Arch Wiki and also did everything they mentioned. To double check that I did everything correctly, I pinged niffler (ping niffler.local) using it's own terminal session and it resolved to it's correct IP. However when I use phoenix to ping to niffler, it doesn't work. When I run ping niffler.local from phoenix, it gives the error - Ping request could not find niffler.local. Please check the name and try again.
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Are you running a mDNS daemon/service on the Windows machine? Did you open the mDNS port in the firewall? – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Apr 30 '17 at 15:48
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I installed Bonjour on Windows 10 machine. Now it works, but it's not resolving address through web browsers. I've hosted a `nodejs` website on *niffler* but can't connect to it using *phoenix* with a web browser. – Arno Lorentz Apr 30 '17 at 16:15