avahi question - host.local not working

[Colin Law]

On 13 October 2014 15:05, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am playing with Ubuntu Mate 14.10 in order to see whether it should
> be my flavour of choice on machines where the graphics h/w is not
> unity compatible.  I have a problem with avahi (I think), I like to
> investigate bugs a bit before reporting so I am trying to understand
> what is going on.
>
> The symptom is that from the mate machine (named rabbit) if I say, for example,
> ping owl.local            where owl is another machine on the network,
> it says ping: unknown host owl.local.  This works ok between other
> machines on the local network.  I can ping rabbit.local ok from other
> machines.  On rabbit avahi-browse -at    shows, for owl
> +   eth0 IPv4 owl [<mac address>]                       Workstation
>       local
> which appears to be ok.

I have reported a bug for this

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/avahi/+bug/1380945

Colin