<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Ross and Jemima Knudsen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ross.jemima@gmail.com">ross.jemima@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Steve Hodge wrote:<br>
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Jonathan Hoskin<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> <<a href="mailto:jonathan.hoskin@gmail.com">jonathan.hoskin@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jonathan.hoskin@gmail.com">jonathan.hoskin@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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> A bit OT but does anyone else use Avahi / mDNS for automatic name<br>
> resolution on their network? Then everything on the network is<br>
> [hostname].local regardless of dynamic or static addressing. Since I<br>
> also have Apple gear in the house it makes a lot of sense for me.<br>
><br>
><br>
> I almost set up it when I was trying to get MythMote working on my<br>
> iPhone. It didn't seem to be able to resolve bare hostnames properly for<br>
> some reason. But then I discovered you could just override the<br>
> discovered addresses in MythMote and that was the easier solution.<br>
<br>
</div></div>I was playing around a few months ago with running backends in virtual<br>
machines etc. Anyway I looked at using mDNS as I thought it was an<br>
elegant way to deal with IP addresses. The one thing that I found was<br>
that you could set the FE and possibly slave backends with .local names<br>
but the master backend address would not resolve, it had to be an IP<br>
address. I never tracked down why this was the case. Maybe it was a<br>
config error on my part because you would think the resolution would be<br>
taken care of by the OS...<br></blockquote><div><br>In my case the problem seemed to be with the search domains assigned by DHCP. The iPhone seemed to be trying to resolve "host.local" as "host.local.local". I could get it to work by assigning a static ip and no search domain. Anyway, works well now.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div></div>