Comments on: Zeroconf / mDNS / Bonjour

By: martin

martin — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:55:01 +0000

New install of CentOS 5.5 and still no easy way of getting nss-mdns installed. Googled around again a discovered that it is available from the EPEL repository (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ).

To add EPEL to your list of Yum repositories,
$ sudo rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

Then install nss-mdns like so,
$ sudo yum install nss-mdns

That’s it!

By: martin

martin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:51:38 +0000

On Ubuntu Server 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope), it worked straight out of the box. No need to install or configure any extra packages. I like Ubuntu.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:48:02 +0000

Install on Redhat EL5 and CentOS 5.3:

Either download the source and compile with :
# ./configure
# make
# make install

Google for “nss-mdns rpm redhat”. I found nss-mdns-0.10-2.el5.i386.rpm downloadable from atrpms.net.
As root:
# yum install nss-mdns*.rpm

Lastly, edit the nsswitch.conf file to tell the OS to use Bonjour in its DNS lookups.
# vi /etc/nsswitch.conf
replace hosts line with:
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4

By: Martin (Admin)

Martin (Admin) — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:44:55 +0000

Install on Ubuntu 704 Server:
$sudo apt-get install libnss-mdns

This will install, configure and start the avahi-daemon process. It will also edit /etc/nsswitch.conf to include mdns in name resolution.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:41:09 +0000

Stuart Cheshire popped up on my Ipod today in a Podcast recorded by IT Conversations. There is now a plug in for Asterisk, the open source PBX, to automatically configure SIP clients. This is a very cool application for Bonjour. Bonjour could basically enable seamless VOIP roaming between networks. This may be the application that finally gives Bonjour the accolade it deserves. Listen to Stuart here:
http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail1711.html