Avahi
zeroconf implementation
I’ve had issues getting avahi (zeroconfig) to work properly on my first arch install. I was, I think, finally able to make everything work properly by doing the following. Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and make the host line look like1:
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns
Finally run:
# systemctl enable avahi-daemon.service
Testing metric:
ping -c 1 `hostname`.local
avahi-resolve -n `hostname`.local
getent hosts `hostname`
More info on what mdns4_minimal and mdns can be found on the [nss-mDNS](http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/) website. ↩︎