I need an mdns solution as well. If you have something working please let me know.
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 03:26:29AM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: > I've installed howl on my fileserver and enabled multicast. From linux > I can do this: > > ko...@arcology:~$ uname -a > Linux arcology 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 > UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux > ko...@arcology:~$ nslookup muzkabox.local > Server: 192.168.1.254 > Address: 192.168.1.254#53 > > ** server can't find muzkabox.local: NXDOMAIN > > ko...@arcology:~$ ping muzakbox.local > PING muzakbox.local (192.168.1.66) 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from muzakbox.local (192.168.1.66): icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=310 ms > 64 bytes from muzakbox.local (192.168.1.66): icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=3.19 ms > 64 bytes from muzakbox.local (192.168.1.66): icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=5.26 ms > 64 bytes from muzakbox.local (192.168.1.66): icmp_seq=7 ttl=255 time=2.44 ms > ^C > --- muzakbox.local ping statistics --- > 7 packets transmitted, 4 received, 42% packet loss, time 6025ms > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.441/80.299/310.295/132.792 ms > > > but on OpenBSD I get this: > > $ uname -a > OpenBSD splat 4.5 GENERIC#1749 i386 > $ nslookup muzakbox.local > Server: 192.168.1.254 > Address: 192.168.1.254#53 > > ** server can't find muzakbox.local: NXDOMAIN > > $ ping muzakbox.local > ping: unknown host: muzakbox.local > > > Obviously linux's resolver is checking mDNS as well as regular DNS. Is > there any way to get OpenBSD doing this too? The only thing I can > think is that is has to do with the 'order hosts,bind' line, though > bind doesn't seem to be install on the linux box.... Zeroconf is > really convenient for me but it's kind of useless if it's going to > force me into using Linux as a desktop. > > To head off the stupid questions: I had my computers all with static > IPs but I've moved and there's a new (very locked down) router that I > can't tamper with, and names are nicer anyway. > > .....Actually I just solved my problem a different way because I > discovered the dhclient.conf:send host-name "<hostname>"; option. I'm > still curious about mDNS support in OpenBSD though (and this took me a > couple hours of searching, so the archives could probably use this > tip). > -Nick
