[mythtvnz] Wireless Keyboard / Trackball

[Steve Hodge]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Ross and Jemima Knudsen <
ross.jemima at gmail.com> wrote:

> Steve Hodge wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Jonathan Hoskin
> > <jonathan.hoskin at gmail.com <mailto:jonathan.hoskin at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     A bit OT but does anyone else use Avahi / mDNS for automatic name
> >     resolution on their network? Then everything on the network is
> >     [hostname].local regardless of dynamic or static addressing. Since I
> >     also have Apple gear in the house it makes a lot of sense for me.
> >
> >
> > I almost set up it when I was trying to get MythMote working on my
> > iPhone. It didn't seem to be able to resolve bare hostnames properly for
> > some reason. But then I discovered you could just override the
> > discovered addresses in MythMote and that was the easier solution.
>
> I was playing around a few months ago with running backends in virtual
> machines etc.  Anyway I looked at using mDNS as I thought it was an
> elegant way to deal with IP addresses.  The one thing that I found was
> that you could set the FE and possibly slave backends with .local names
> but the master backend address would not resolve, it had to be an IP
> address.  I never tracked down why this was the case.  Maybe it was a
> config error on my part because you would think the resolution would be
> taken care of by the OS...
>

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.

Cheers,
Steve
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