Avahi now supports static host mappings!
Tonight, I spent a few hours implementing static host mappings for Avahi, which Ross Burton will be happy about.
Essentially this is a file (/etc/avahi/hosts) which contains a list of host->ip mappings, the main purpose of this is to advertise a hostname for a device that isn't avahi-enabled.
e.g. if I want to advertise the http service of my router, it isn't much use as theres no hostname to point it at, now I add
192.168.0.1 router.local
to my hosts file, and put
router.local
in the .service file, and done :)
It's now in svn, changeset 1133, will be in the next release.
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lathiat) wrote,
accomplished
