Avahi documentation. Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a loca...

Avahi documentation. Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network via the mDNS/DNS-SD protocol suite. Avahi is an implementation of the DNS Service Discovery and Multicast DNS specifications for Zeroconf Networking. If omited defaults to the system host name as set with the sethostname () system call. This means that a laptop or computer may be connected into a network and instantly be able to view other people to chat with, find printers to print to or find files being shared. As a consequence, in large networks, the avahi-daemon could reach the upper bound of some internal limits. conf Description avahi-daemon. Section [server] host-name= Set the host name avahi-daemon tries to register on the LAN. The daemon registers local IP addresses and static services using mDNS/DNS-SD and provides two IPC APIs for local programs to make use of the mDNS record cache the avahi-daemon maintains. . Avahi and Avahi-aware applications allow users to plug a computer into a network and automatically view other people to chat with, see printers to print to, and find shared files on other computers. flo pjpb fusgfrvv ujqqz ueobw kkxtq ybg jgqyyt ntqcklne odf