Amir Azarmi wrote: > I have 2 Apple Macs and new Opensolaris machine, the hostname of which is > 'homer'. I have tried to switch on mDNS on the Opensolaris machine (homer) by > enabling the multicast service on: > > svcadm enable network/dns/multicast
On recent OpenSolaris builds I believe the above service is enabled by default. > and editting the /etc/nsswitch.conf file to contain: > > hosts: files mdns dns > ipnodes: files mdns dns You can copy over the file /etc/nsswitch.dns rather than edit the file. > however when I check it by pinging homer.local from the Macs without success. > I also tried > > getent hosts homer.local > > and was expecting to get t > > 192.168.1.3 homer.local > > but instead got > > 127.0.0.1 homer.local localhost loghost > > Does anyone have any ideas what is wrong? Could you post the output of the following commands? * '/sbin/ifconfig -a' on the OpenSolaris machine * 'dns-sd -Q homer.local 255 1' on Macs For networking questions posting to networking-discuss or nwam-discuss would be better. Rishi _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
