The Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon implementing Apple's ZeroConf
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The Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon implements Apple's Zeroconf
architecture (also known as "Rendezvous" or "Bonjour"). The daemon
registers local IP addresses and static services using
mDNS/DNS-SD and provides two IPC APIs for local programs to make
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exclusively by avahi-dnsconfd (a daemon which configures unicast
DNS servers using server info published via mDNS) and nss-mdns
(a libc NSS plugin, providing name resolution via mDNS). Finally
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Upon startup avahi-daemon interprets its configuration file
@pkgsysconfdir@/avahi-daemon.conf and reads XML
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@pkgsysconfdir@/avahi-daemon.conf: the default configuration file for avahi-daemon.
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@pkgsysconfdir@/avahi-daemon.conf: the default configuration file for avahi-daemon, for more information.
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@servicedir@/*.service: static service definitions.
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@pkgsysconfdir@/hosts: additional static hostname mappings to publish in mDNS, see for more information.
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@servicedir@/*.service: static service definitions, see for more information.
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SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGQUIT: avahi-daemon will shutdown. This is issued by passing --kill to avahi-daemon.
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SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGQUIT: avahi-daemon will shutdown. (Same as --kill).
SIGHUP: avahi-daemon will reload unicast DNS
server data from /etc/resolv.conf and static
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+ service definitions from @servicedir@/. (Same as --reload)
SIGUSR1: avahi-daemon will dump local and remote cached resource record data to syslog.
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The avahi developers <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>; avahi is
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The Avahi Developers <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>; Avahi is
available from
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http://avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAndUnicastDotLocal documents the problems when using Avahi in a unicast DNS zone .local.