[Linux-Biella] zeroconf su linux

[Raffaele Salmaso]

visto su http://blogs.gnome.org/view/jamesh/2005/11/01/0
parla di ubuntu breezy, ma penso sia adattabile tranquillamente ad altre 
distro (penso, non sono sicuro)

During conferences, it is often useful to be able to connect to connect 
to other people's machines (e.g. for collaborative editing sessions with 
Gobby). This is a place where mDNS hostname resolution can come in 
handy, so you don't need to remember IP addresses.

This is quite easy to set up on Breezy:

Install the avahi-daemon, avahi-utils and libnss-mdns packages from 
universe.
Restart dbus in order for the new system bus security policies to take 
effect with "sudo invoke-rc.d dbus restart".
Start avahi-daemon with "sudo invoke-rc.d avahi-daemon start".
Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf, and add "mdns" to the end of the "hosts:" line.
Now your hostname should be advertised to the local network, and you can 
connect to other hosts by name (of the form hostname.local). You can 
also get a list of the currently advertised hosts and services with the 
avahi-discover program.

While the hostname advertising is useful in itself, it should get a lot 
more useful in Dapper, as more programs are built with mDNS support.

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