Ticket #256 (closed defect: invalid)

Opened 4 years ago

Last modified 4 years ago

avahi-daemon does not publish static hosts

Reported by: sowmya Owned by: lennart
Milestone: Component: avahi-core
Keywords: Cc:

Description

Static hosts that are entered via /etc/avahi/hosts file never get registered at initialization and hence are never published. To test this feature, I added a bunch of hosts in the /etc/avahi/hosts file on one machine and from another machine did an "avahi-browse" and the hosts don't show up. After adding some prints in the daemon, found that these entries are not registered.

Change History

Changed 4 years ago by lennart

avahi-browse cannot be used to browse for hosts. In fact the mDNS/DNS-SD protocols don't allow that. Browsing is only possible for services.

Please watch syslog. It should show you if hosts are published or not.

Also note that /etc/avahi/hosts should list hostnames with .local suffix, i.e. as fqdn.

Changed 4 years ago by lennart

  • status changed from new to closed
  • resolution set to invalid
  • milestone Avahi 0.7 deleted

Closing since bogus.

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