avahi question - host.local not working

[Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 03:05:57PM +0100, Colin Law 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.
> 
> avahi-daemon is running and /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf is the same
> as on other machines.

In order to use Multicast DNS for name resolution (i.e. .local names)
you need to have:

- libnss-mdns package installed
- mdns4 listed for hosts in /etc/nsswitch.conf (AFAIU this is done
  automatically when you install libnss-mdns)

Can you verify that this is so?

> Does anyone know what might be causing access to other_machines.local
> from the mate m/c not to work?
> 
> I can't find an existing bug report on launchpad.

Marius Gedminas
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