avahi – Row Coding

Using Avahi on DreamPlug Ubuntu with iPads

October 13, 2022 by Tarik

I don’t frequent SF so frequently, but I can see that this question has attracted a fair bit of attention, so let me just summarise my findings here, and hopefully provide something of a solution to those experiencing the same issue:- It seems that this is a bug with the version of Avahi that ships … Read more

Can I have dots in a hostname?

September 18, 2022 by Tarik

Chopper is right. Due to how DNS works, the “alpha” component of “a.alpha” is considered a discrete ‘label’ in DNS. Using a hostname with a dot in it will cause inconsistent results from any system that consumes DNS. Avahi does interact with DNS names, and specifically the <host-name> directive needs to have the DNS FQDN … Read more