Are you running a firewall on the Arch box (or elsewhere in the network) through which the avahi traffic has to pass? As I understand it (various similar issues found through Google), you need to explicitly allow mulitcast DNS traffic (udp 5353) for this feature to work. 2012/4/5, Alper Kanat <tunix@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > I did. However I found out that there's not much difference in the case of > host resolution. When hosts line is like the following: > > $ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf | grep hosts > hosts: files dns > > I can ping office.local from other machines on the network. If I change > that line like this: > > hosts: files mdns4_minimal dns mdns4 > > then I realized that host resolution is a little bit more slower. > Connecting via SSH takes 3-4 seconds longer. Even if I change the line like > this, office.local becomes inaccessible after a few minutes. I tried > enabling avahi-dnsconfd which also made no difference. > > --- > Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? > > > On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 14:32, Jochen Maes (Gcool) <gcool.be@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> Have you configured your /etc/nsswitch.conf (server side) as suggested >> on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Avahi#Hostname_resolution ? >> >> 2012/4/5, Alper Kanat <tunix@xxxxxxxxxxx>: >> > Hey There, >> > >> > I've installed an Arch Linux server in our office for serving files over >> > the network via Bonjour/avahi. All computers are connected to an ADSL >> modem >> > via wireless. Only the server is connected via LAN. When I start the >> > server, I can ping it: >> > >> > --- CMD OUTPUT >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > >> > $ ping office.local >> > PING office.local (192.168.1.107): 56 data bytes >> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.107: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.080 ms >> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.107: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.671 ms >> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.107: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.979 ms >> > ^C >> > --- office.local ping statistics --- >> > 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss >> > round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.979/1.243/1.671/0.305 ms >> > >> > $ ping 192.168.1.107 >> > PING 192.168.1.107 (192.168.1.107): 56 data bytes >> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.107: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.194 ms >> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.107: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.229 ms >> > ^C >> > --- 192.168.1.107 ping statistics --- >> > 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss >> > round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.194/1.212/1.229/0.017 ms >> > >> > After a few minutes however I can't ping it using the .local address: >> > >> > *$ ping office.local* >> > *ping: cannot resolve office.local: Unknown host* >> > >> > $ ping 192.168.1.107 >> > PING 192.168.1.107 (192.168.1.107): 56 data bytes >> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.107: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.375 ms >> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.107: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.562 ms >> > ^C >> > --- 192.168.1.107 ping statistics --- >> > 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss >> > round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.375/1.469/1.562/0.094 ms >> > >> > --- CMD OUTPUT >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > >> > If I restart avahi-daemon, we can ping office.local for another few >> > minutes. Any ideas? >> > >> > --- >> > Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? >> > >> >
