On 20 Mar 2014 10:36, "Petter Reinholdtsen" <p...@hungry.com> wrote: > > [Petter Reinholdtsen] > > I agree that avahi/mdns would be very useful, and will change > > freedombox-setup to pull in avahi-daemon, avahi-utils and libnss-mdns > > on the freedombox. > > This is now in place, and freshly built images (or upgraded images) > will get avahi-daemon installed by default. > > > With this in place, visiting <URL: http://freedombox.local/ > gave me > > the jwchat web interface. :) > > And this work for a while, when using a virtual machine on my wheezy > laptop. But just a few minutes after the freedombox was booted (or > avahi-daemon restarted), the freedombox.local mDNS name is no longer > known. Anyone know what is going on here?
Hm, your client machine needs libnss-mdns, and avahi-daemon needs to be running on the freedombox... if the daemon stops responding, the address will no longer work. It would be worth checking the logs, perhaps? > > Is Bonjour in Debian? Is it the same as zeroconf? > > Still wonder about this one. :) "Bonjour" is the brand name of the Apple library that implements the two standards mDNS and DNS-SD, which together are two-thirds of "Zeroconf" networking. Bonjour is shipped out of the box on OS X (and I believe iOS), and is bundled with iTunes on Windows. The equivalent client library in Debian is libnss-mdns, which is a dependency of the main desktop environments (I think). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_configuration_networking So I was raising the point that not all Windows desktops will be able to find .local addresses without installing Bonjour, which might be important. On mobiles, iPhones should work, but I have not found a solution for Android (unless you build your own app). This sucks, but it is still the most user-friendly way I have yet found for getting people onto the web interface when you don't know the IP address of the box. I want to look more into the Microsoft upnp protocols to see if there's something that works for Windows. And I think Android support is quite important given the way things are going. But Mac and Linux users are sorted. :) Hope that helps, Tim
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