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Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network via the mDNS/DNS-SD protocol suite. This enables you to plug your laptop or computer into a network and instantly be able to view other people who you can chat with, find printers to print to or find files being shared.

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What's the difference between .local, .home, and .lan?

How can I reliably address different machines on my network? I've always used the .local suffix to talk to computers on my local network before. With a new router, though, .local rarely (though sometimes) works. I've found that .home and .lan…
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What is the purpose of avahi on a RHEL 7 server?

Running a server machine with CentOS 7, I've noticed that the avahi service is running by default. I am kind of wondering what the purpose of it is. One thing it seems to do (in my environment) is randomly disabling IPv6 connectivity, which looks…
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What is the difference between resolvconf, systemd-resolve, and avahi?

I'm currently working on a project that has required some DNS troubleshooting. However I am fairly new to the wonderful world of networking and I'm at a bit of a loss as to where to begin. My specific problem probably belongs on the Raspberry Pi…
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avahi-daemon withdraws IP address from my network interface

I am running an Arch Linux server in my local network. It has avahi-daemon running on it to advertise some services (like a print server). It has happened for the second time now that my server was not reachable anymore. After some investigation, I…
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avahi-daemon and ".local" domain issues

I have a Ubuntu 16.04 based HTPC/Media Server that's running 24/7. As far as I can remember using an official Ubuntu distro, I've always had issues with the avahi-daemon. The issue is pretty often discussed online. Some people decide to just delete…
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Multicasting multiple mdns names

What I would like is to use avahi-daemon to multicast more then one name. So that I could connect to it with domainA.local domainB.local. I could then reroute these addresses to a different web interface of different applications with nginx. Is it…
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What is the avahi daemon?

I just learning about daemon, by that time I came know avahi daemon can you please explain detaily about avahi daemon and why linux has a avahi user ?
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How to disable avahi-daemon without uninstalling it

I am running Kali 2.0 64-bit, and I recently noticed that avahi-daemon is starting at boot time, listening on several udp ports. How do I disable it completely, without purging the package itself? I have tried sudo rcconf --off avahi-daemon But…
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mDNS to/from a Docker container

I've made a Docker container which runs a forked-daapd (a DAAP server publishing over mDNS with a single port 3689 for HTTP requests) and exposes the port properly to the host operating system: sudo docker run -it --rm -v…
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`.fritz.box` and `.local` hostnames in the same network: Which do I really need?

So far, I have avahi-daemon running on all my Ubuntu machines, partly because it is installed by default. The router I used to have was quite dumb and did not really do anything except DHCP and DHCPv6. I could access the other Linux computers with…
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How to print from iPad to CUPS?

I would like to print from an iPad2 to the office printer running on CUPS. After following a couple of cookbook style cheat sheets, printing from the iPad still does not work. the iPad sees the printer entry I made and offers it as an option, but…
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How can I limit engagement with a large office LAN?

I work in a large office building with hundreds of other computers on the same LAN. I don't have any reason to communicate with most of these computers, and when I do, it's always on an "opt-in" basis (like adding a network mount to my fstab). But…
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when using avahi, how can a host know if it's name is hostname.local or hostname-2.local

How can a computer running avahi ascertain and display its OWN hostname in the event that it is dynamically changed to foo-2, foo-3, etc due to hostname conflicts with other devices on the network? When two computers (both with hostname = foo) that…
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Avahi commands not working in CentOS

I want to use Avahi tools for mDNS service discovery in CentOS 6.6. I have installed the following packages: avahi, avahi-tools, nss-mdns. I checked the Avahi daemon and it is running: $ service avahi-daemon status avahi-daemon (pid 1365) is…
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systemd-resolved browse for mdns services

Can systemd-resolved be used to browse for mdns services the same way like avahi-browse? For example: $ avahi-browse _smb._tcp + eno1 IPv6 PC1 Microsoft Windows Network local + eno1 IPv6 PC2 …
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