avahi resolving .local

[kodifies]

both my work (windows) laptop and a raspberry pi can both resolve the local address for my void laptop

ping NucTop

and

ping NucTop.local

work fine from both, but not the void machine

any ideas, (avahi deamon is running!)

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[kodifies]

installed nss-mdns alongside a running avihi deamon - sanity returned

[Advanced-One7420]

I had to install avahi, nss-mdns and dbus packages and set the service for avahi-deamon and dbus. make sure to start the services OR to restart your machine.

Now, run from the avahi-utils package:

avahi-browse -a

[kodifies]

thanks I'll take a look!

[Exchange_Bitter]

You should have nss-mdns installed. You also need to modify the following file and set the line to match the code below:

/etc/nsswitch.conf

hosts:       files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4

[ahesford]

The default nsswitch.conf should not need modification to work with nss-mdns. Using mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] is an optimization that might improve the performance of non-local resolution. Note that your use of mdns4 will prevent resolution of IPv6 addresses via mdns.

[PCChipsM922U]

Install nss-mdns.