Questions tagged [avahi]

Avahi is a free zeroconf implementation - A service discovery protocol. It can be used to find services on a network and also to publish services to be found by other Zeroconf clients.

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Host name conflict with avahi daemon on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

I have two VMs running Ubunut 14.04 on Virtualbox. They are connected via VIP. Syslog on node1 shows recuring error messages from Avahi and I can't find the problem nor the solution. tail /var/log/syslog Aug 18 09:15:16 localhost avahi-daemon[902]:…
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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 How do I setup multiple servers that originally have the same hostname

Let me explain what I'm trying to do: I'm creating a Linux Distro Image that will be installed on a SD Card Setting the default hostname to myHostname.local This is all on my local network This is fine if I only have 1 server, but what about if I…
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How to send dynamic update to DNS Server using Avahi?

I am using beaglebone running avahi-daemon and I have configure it to respond mdns query with local name “myboard.local” when accessed from PC on same network. It works fine. But, how can I configure Avahi to send dynamic update message to DNS…
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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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Do you need to advertise an AFP service via Avahi for an Ubuntu Server to show up in OSX Finder?

I am only advertising an NFS share plus the "model", and I don't want to install extra services on the Server unless I have to, ie netatalk, as it is used solely for NFS exports. Currently there is no entry in Finder under "Shared" with below config…
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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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Have a service start on startup with Ubuntu

I'm not clear on how to start a service when the server boots, I read on some of the other questions asked about adding the script to /etc/init.d, but It's just one line that I need to execute in the commandline: sudo /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon…
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How can I get systemd to wait for Avahi to completely stop at shutdown/reboot time?

Specifically, I've got some code that consumes the output of avahi-browse on another machine and occasionally it doesn't see all of the services stopping when a server powers down or reboots. Generally most of them come through, but not always. It…
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stop avahi on archlinux

I have archlinux with samba. I noticed from last update it started avahi-daemon. If I stop/disable avahi, seems samba starting avahi automatically. Also tried with kill. Printing is disabled in samba. How can I prevent samba to start avahi after…
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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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Resolve avahi hostnames via DNS

I would love to resolve avahi hostnames via DNS: I connect to the office VPN via PPTP but Avahi refuses to run on POINTOPOINT interfaces. I just want to resolve avahi hostnames via the DNS configured when the PPTP link is up. I tried to do this…
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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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