Questions tagged [bonjour]

Bonjour is Apple's implementation of Zero-configuration networking (Zeroconf), a group of technologies that includes service discovery, address assignment, and hostname resolution.

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How do I enable Bonjour/Avahi lookups in all tools?

Although I've got numerous Avahi packages installed, I can't seem to get something like "ping myhost.local" to resolve. But "avahi-browse --all" does return results. The device I'm trying to reach can be reached by IP address, and both the Ubuntu…
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Periodically unable to resolve .local hostname

I've got a server on my LAN, let's say it's hostname is server. Periodically I will suddenly be unable to reach the server using server.local. I will get an error which looks like: server.local: Name or service not known This causes various…
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