On Sat 19 Aug 2017 at 15:26:02 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 19 August 2017 14:57:46 Brian wrote: > > > /etc/hosts files advocated? What is wrong with using avahi-demon? > > This is 2017. > > For starters, it seems not to want to use 192.168 addresses very well. I > run it, but no clue what it does except assign the wrong address to what > it discovers. > > But my curiosity bump needed scratching, so I looked at /etc/avahi/hosts, > and the only machine/address it discovered is correct, for my brother > MFC's scanner.local. The tabloid capable printer in it is also at that > address. I looked at the manpage for daemon.conf but have not looked at > the file. It seems to me that if its to be usefull, it should detect > everything in my local class D block. There are from 4 to 6 other > machines here, 4 others minimum. Why did it not detect them also? If > its to be OOTB a substitute for /etc/hosts, its not doing at all well.
Cannot help you with the 192.168 addresses thing. But, given your curiosity bent, I think you could sort this out if you look at what /etc/hosts and avahi do. I've never need to alter /etc/avahi/hosts. -- Brian.
